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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

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Construction on the 2025 Missing Sidewalk Program started in July 2025 and is anticipated to be completed in fall 2025.

  • 100 Avenue: 170 Street to 178 Street
  • 103 Avenue: Mayfield Rd to 170 Street
  • 172 Street at 103 Avenue intersection
  • 172 Street at 105 Avenue intersection
  • 111 Street: Saddleback Road to 34 Avenue
  • 111 Street: 37 Avenue to 43 Avenue
  • 153 Avenue: 117 Street to 121 Street
  • 167 Avenue: 91 Street to 95 Street

The 111 Street one completed last year was a shared-use path, so I suspect (hope) that the other portions this year will also be. The NW corner of the 34 Ave/111 St intersection is dug up now, not too sure why, but hopefully it's to correct the awkward angle from the new path completed last year between 34 and 37 Ave:

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fungus_eater said:
City should build more "multi-use paths" instead of "bike lanes" to decrease scrutiny from the UCP
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They already do.

The challenge is that it’s still sub par infrastructure in high traffic areas.

Fine for low traffic residential areas. Bad for commuting areas where bikers are going 25-40km/hr.

Same reason you do speed bumps in residential or stop signs, but you don’t put those on a freeway.

I’ve had so many close calls with pets or people on MUPs and I’ll be going like 15 when I pass them (barely faster than running speed). Ring bell, brake, go to far left. And still some idiot on a phone will random cut left, or their dog on a long leash rips to the opposite side, or a runners with headphones 3 people across won’t move over, etc.

MUPs are a fine compromise in some places. But 132nd ave is what we should be aiming for. Sidewalks, bike paths, continuous crossings, protected intersections.

Just slapping down MUPs along arterials like in new suburbs ain’t it.
 
Some interesting findings from new McGill Uni study on transportation in Canada's cities. Study involved 17,000 people. The video has link to more findings in the study.


This first chart indicates the more money you have, the more important a car is to you.

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People who bike, enjoy their commute the most.
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Most drivers support more funding for public transit.
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trevorhayden said:
Quick, build them all fast!
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I want the city to find a way to fast track the rest of 132 Ave. The multi modal roundabout at 90 St and the final section from 82 St to 97 St is critical in linking this all together.

TAS said:
Some interesting findings from new McGill Uni study on transportation in Canada's cities. Study involved 17,000 people. The video has link to more findings in the study.


This first chart indicates the more money you have, the more important a car is to you.

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It's interesting that the disagree camp bumps slightly upward at >$150k in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Saskatoon, and levels off in other municipalities.
 
Thanks for sharing @CplKlinger !

Imagine if he had visited ten years ago. So much of what he featured (for better or for worse) is all quite recent within the last decade: majority of the bike infrastructure, Valley Line LRT, new Walterdale and tawatina bridges, Happy Beer Street, sidewalk extended patios, funicular, Blatchford, Manchester Sq, ICE District, revamped Stadium LRT & Stadium Yards, most of the murals, list goes on.

For me, what a great showcasing of all the progress made recently, even despite some pretty challenging circumstances (oil glut, borderline hostile provincial gov't, COVID). Lots more that needs to be done but nice to not see everything through an overly critical lens, which I myself am super guilty of when it comes to this city.
 
northlands said:
Lots more that needs to be done but nice to not see everything through an overly critical lens, which I myself am super guilty of when it comes to this city.
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I think there's a sort of hedonic treadmill thing going on here—once something good happens, you internalize it as part of your baseline and don't really register it as progress anymore.
 
Three areas where bridge infrastructure would benefit peds and cycos to tremendous advantage in Edmonton would be:
1. the council-impeded bridge adjacent to the Macdonald Hotel and the Funicular across 99th Street (maybe the CRL can have an impact here)
2. conversion of the Low Level bridge to permanently remove moto-vehicular traffic in favor of the foot-'n-pedal crowd (the bridge itself could be made into a gathering point attraction for that area of the river valley)
3. a bridge over 109th Street along 102nd Avenue with the conversion of one-o-twoth into a spine for LRT, hoofers and sprocketeers -- from the Google ruler in the snapz below it would be 666+ (Devil-got-my-tongue) feet in length making a 1:20 incline doable in clearing the 109th impasse (easy, peasey, and breezy). A 5% incline is easily negotiated by even over-aged, underdeveloped, sedentary whozits such as myself (TJ) and the bridge could be wide enough to segregate the slow-movers from the whiz-byers. This makes sense for the near-by NorQuesters most of whom -- as the 'O has noted -- would be car-less and yet downtown centric in their off-book hours. My expansive gut tells me that it would be a strong connector to the opposing sides of the 109th impediment.
Whoever brings this trio to life in the upcoming election will have my interest.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that the 2nd Avenue bridge could be High-Line-esque in its demeanor with maybe even a few kiosks on board.
 
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