Bren Wilson Ⓥ

Would love to see this happen in another Canadian city, and I hope if it's successful it starts a wave of similar legislation.

They aren't my favourite design (mountable curb next to 60kph traffic lanes), nor are they open yet, but they are there! I also suspect on a road section this wide and hard to cross, there will be a lot of people biking the wrong way.

this is actually the CP rail bridge, which ironically, the MUP hasn't been constructed for yet.

ION had to get special permission, the province does not allow them as standard (only the single transit priority light atop a regular signal head).

MTO largely manages highway projects and seem woefully equipped to do much else.

ION had to get special permission and then the province chose not to add those signals to the HTA and approved OTM guides.

I would largely agree. This line has a lot of potential that is sitting there unused because it's operated at glacial speeds and even the bare minimum TSP it has doesn't seem to be functional (or effective) given the bunching occurring. That first turn out of Humber is mind-blowing.

Political discourse also assumes anyone with a whiff of Socialism is one step away from implementing a command economy and outlawing anything that isn't state run, despite neither of those things being integral to socialism.

Did you read the comments from council too, claiming it's seasonal infrastructure! These are on street bikelanes! How do they excuse just not plowing part of the road??

don't forget the rocks

I believe Nann said they should be awarding the first phase by the end of the year. Probably another year in detailed design after that before construction would start in earnest.

So exciting! I've been working on FWLRT for over a year now and can't wait to finally ride it!

An excellent thread that I hope Hamilton and Metrolinx consider for the Hamilton B-Line in sections where the RoW is extremely narrow!

If Hamilton ends up choosing BRT over rail transit for the eventual A-line I hope it's at least something like this.

We also just completed radius reductions at that intersection and general pedestrian improvements along upper went. I'm not sure what vehicle movement was involved here, but any intersection with that many lanes and is never going to be vision zero safe.

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Very heavy, but a crow or pry bar would be enough to spin it around.

Heck I bike my kids 750m. It's less about distance and more about time.

I had this too but recently had to take a GO bus to a client office and to make the schedule work I needed to bike to the bus. My poor baby on the front of a bus on multiple 400 series highways. Those racks hold very firm. Just remember to tell the driver you're getting your bike when you get off!

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It's very important that designers don't just follow guidebooks - they need to try infrastructure out themselves and understand what the physical infrastructure feels like compared to a plan view in MicroStation.

It's unfortunate when a great design gets let down by a single aspect. Waiting here to cross the road where the cycletrack continues, it's wonderful that there is a waiting area but it doesn't feel great without any curb protection as cars whiz past.

I find it very interesting (frightening?) that a huge use case for LLMs right now is helping write documents and helping to read/interpret them. At what point are we never really interacting with the actual document anymore.

There's always pushback on this (rightfully) pointing out that cars are the bigger hazard. Both can be true. 15mph is a reasonable speed limit for vehicles in bike lanes and shared paths. Keep pushing for 30-40kph limits on the road for all vehicles inside urban areas, and for less car lanes.

These chicanes slow pedestrians down and reduce fatalities, have you ever seen two full sized adults collide at 50kph??

I've been hit as a pedestrian by a right on red vehicle, he didn't notice he was driving into me until I hit my fist on his hood. Many other times I've held back on crossing because I assume the driver isn't paying attention to pedestrians. A lack of fatalities doesn't equal a safe situation.

Adoption of right turn on red: Effects on crashes at signalized intersections, Accident Analysis & Prevention Volume 14, Issue 3, June 1982, Pages 219-234 Zador, P; Moshman, J; Marcus, L ABSTRACT By the end of the 1970's, all states in the U.S. had modified their laws to permit drivers to turn right on steady red at signalized intersections. Police-reported crash data from six states where permissive right turn on red (RTOR) laws were adopted during 1974–1977, as well as data from three states where the law in effect was unchanged throughout the period, were used to determine the effect of adopting such laws on the frequency of crashes involving right turning maneuvers at signalized intersections. The increase in the overall frequency of such crashes in states that adopted permissive right turn on red laws exceeded by more than 20% the comparable change in states that retained the same laws. Larger increases were found in urban areas (25%), and for pedestrian crashes (57%) especially in urban areas (79%). An increase of over 30% was found for child pedestrians, 100% for adults, and 110% for elderly pedestrians after adoption of RTOR. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6015713 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0001457582900331

one of the craziest things to me is we learned basically immediately that this was terrible from a public safety perspective, especially for child/elderly pedestrians

this paper is from 1982 but the earliest version I found was published in *1979*!

I mean if consent was given...

I've always been amused by the idea that it's too cold to bike most of the year in Canada. Canada, a country famous for winter sports.

Can we stop with the private public spaces?? What does a planning department do at this point if all the actual planning and land is completely privatized.