Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

[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

 

[Airboy]

Saw the rebar for the centre column is above grade now. So expect to see form work in the next few weeks.

 

[TAS]

What a beautiful winter day after the snowfall. If more of our streets were designed, built and looked like this, I would think it would lead to more people walking, and biking. Pics don't do justice to how good this looks and the freshness of the air.

 

[dkazzed]

It was very pretty out this morning. I was expecting the snow to be wet, heavy, and difficult to ride through, but my tires just sliced through it.

 

[BrettB]

Statistics Canada posted an interesting new database this morning of cycling infrastructure in 75 Canadian cities.

It maps 18,700 km of cycling infrastructure across those municipalities.

The municipalities with the largest network of high comfort bikeways are Montréal (360 km), Vancouver (246 km), Edmonton (226 km), and Québec (190 km)

 

[Kosy123]

Most of Edmonton's infrastructure seem to be in MUPs. Also I got a screenshot of the classifications here:

 

[dkazzed]

I'm going to have to disagree with Can-BICS on classified bikeways as high comfort and MUPs as medium comfort, it should be the other way around. Even in Metro Vancouver where the author of the classification system lives, those bike ways are nice and good for adults and older kids who have some degree of comfort in riding with some traffic, but still not high comfort.

 

[thommyjo]

Most of Edmonton's infrastructure seem to be in MUPs. Also I got a screenshot of the classifications here:

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Yeah, WTH is this ranking. Local street bikeways are NOT AAA infrastructure. If an F250 is legally allowed on the road, even if traffic calmed and all the things. It’s still not safe for a young child or elderly rider.

Big time disagree on that.

 

[erudyk_29]

Yeah, those types of setups work in Japan where they have shared streets but they're super narrow and have tons of people walking and biking everywhere to keep traffic down. In Edmonton, not so much.

 

[dkazzed]

Sent a 311 report to the city asking if it was appropriate for city staff when asked nicely if they could park their vehicle to the side of bike lane to sarcastically respond "Yea ok." One of them gave me a hand gesture of some sort when they noticed me taking this photo for documentation purposes.

 

[ntt1]

So, it seems that more than half of the northbound 110 Street bike lanes are covered in windrows. I don't think there was enough snow to have this problem last or the year before, so I'm not sure if the city would actually do anything if I made a 311 report?

 

[thommyjo]

So, it seems that more than half of the northbound 110 Street bike lanes are covered in windrows. I don't think there was enough snow to have this problem last or the year before, so I'm not sure if the city would actually do anything if I made a 311 report?

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Tbh, if all our bike paths could be this good, I’d be happy. Some width is expected to be lost in the winter. This doesn’t seem too brutal

 

[ntt1]

Tbh, if all our bike paths could be this good, I’d be happy. Some width is expected to be lost in the winter. This doesn’t seem too brutal

Yeah, I agree, just a minor quibble at the moment. The main concern would be if/when it starts melting into the lane, though... hopefully, they'd take care of it then.

 

[TAS]

Yeah, I agree, just a minor quibble at the moment. The main concern would be if/when it starts melting into the lane, though... hopefully, they'd take care of it then.

Yes, I'm becoming more convinced as a winter city that when building our infrastructure, the wider two-way lanes are a better choice than one-way lanes as the path continues to narrow with snow accumulation. Or is it just a maintenance issue?