Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

[YEG imagineer]

This is the MUP at 117th St and about 42 Ave. Miniplow cleaned the MUP fine this morning but they never plow the road portion. No bus route so it's never plowed. It's either smush or later gets into icy smooth layers. I wish COE would just clean that too. Equipment is crossing anyways.

 

[thommyjo]

This is the MUP at 117th St and about 42 Ave. Miniplow cleaned the MUP fine this morning but they never plow the road portion. No bus route so it's never plowed. It's either smush or later gets into icy smooth layers. I wish COE would just clean that too. Equipment is crossing anyways.
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311 it and email you councillor maybe? See if there’s a reason crossings aren’t cleared.

I’m assuming it’s for concern of “bumps”. Which arguably is great traffic calming for the crossing

 

[ntt1]

The Malmo MUP has looked like this since at least Tuesday. Some of the drifts are up to 1.5-2ft tall... still nothing done.

And a neighborhood connector to a bus stop (Sweet Grass to 111 St near 34 Ave, SW corner). Still nothing done, completely inaccessible. Difficult to even walk, impossible to roll/bike.

 

[dkazzed]

There were bad drifts to the NW, I opted to only partially ride Wednesday and yesterday to avoid them. Rode on Hermitage Rd this morning, the frozen slush windrows at the bus stops were the biggest hazards. I was happy seeing at least 10 other bike tire tracks on Hermitage.

It's the matter of fact that our city is so spread out combined with the extreme and constant winter weather means we're never going to see Amsterdam levels of winter bike path maintenance. But the winter priority loop needs to be expanded to cover more central core loop. 106 St south to 63 Ave, 104 St/LRT north to NAIT, LRT paths, 102 Ave to 140 St, all need to be cleared within 24 hours.

I think Parks staff maintain a lot of the river valley SUPs and I noticed those get cleared within 24 hours.

 

[YEG imagineer]

The new ped bridge beside the Rainbow Valley bridge has the first steel beam up as of this week. And the new ped bridge across Whitemud Drive just east of the Terwilligar off-ramp has both end piers substantially done and the contractors are now working on the centre pier. Hopefully both this bridges will be complete this summer. That would make life so much easier for cyclists from the SW

 

[TAS]

The new ped bridge beside the Rainbow Valley bridge has the first steel beam up as of this week. And the new ped bridge across Whitemud Drive just east of the Terwilligar off-ramp has both end piers substantially done and the contractors are now working on the centre pier. Hopefully both this bridges will be complete this summer. That would make life so much easier for cyclists from the SW

And the 142st active transportation bridge