as you are a city, I have a few suggestions that you may wish to consider... First, raise the bike lane above the road, having a bike lane that doesn't pose a danger to to the vehicle to cross if exceeding the speed limit then it's not really safe enough for cyclists. Have intersections at a different level than the rest of the road, have it raised so that drivers need to be more aware when they are crossing it that they are going through a "shared intersection" Having a kerb that separates the cyclists from parked cars are nice but a garden island would be better to prevent passengers from swinging their car doors open, car doors are wide, they can easily eat an entire bike lane and passengers of motor vehicles don't usually think before they exit a vehicle. Allowing "Cyclist only shortcuts" through areas that would otherwise be dead space, beautify the dead space with some plants and stuff... Create hazards and dangers so that traffic has to slow down, if people want to short cut through your city, make them take their time or bypass the city... Other countries residential speeds are 25mph, the school zones are 15mph, the schools are usually designed in a way where if they can help it they avoid the main roads or at least slow that traffic down to the point where they understand that there is a school of little humans there and they should not be killing them. How the USA does it's traffic management is they have cookie cutter streets, they are way too wide and that encourages excess speed, they then fine the person and hope that courts serve justice and stop them from driving... that never worked for those that can afford the tickets, can afford a lawyer and can afford to keep it quiet, what's more harsher isn't dragging them to court it's them learning about Newtonian Physics when their car slams into an immovable object or when someone tears apart their differential casing when they use the road as a runway and their car goes flying. Slowing down traffic can increase in revenue by making the area more attractive place to live and therefore allows you to increase the property rates... higher property rates meaning more money for the city and therefore more services can be provided.
@georgehaeh4856
5 ай бұрын
As a pedestrian, anything that gets cyclists off the sidewalks will make it safer for pedestrians. I've learned to look both ways exiting a business onto the sidewalk. As both driver and cyclist for some decades in downtown Toronto (much denser traffic than Lethbridge), the current design is asking for right turn accidents: It is difficult for right turning drivers without X-ray vision to see cyclists coming from the rear when there's parked cars. There needs to be about three car lengths of shared right of way where a right turning car can get adjacent to the curb to prevent bikes overtaking on the right. There needs to be space for bikes to pass left of right turning cars. There will be plenty of business for personal injury lawyers to sort this out. The City will be joined as defendant. Advice to drivers: Wait for a red before turning right across a cycle lane. Advice to cyclists in the bike lane overtaking cars and trucks: Assume you are invisible to the driver, especially if there are parked cars blocking the driver's view of you. Remember that a large number of fatal cyclist accidents happen after a bike overtakes a truck turning right.
@m33tballa
4 ай бұрын
We no longer live in 1890 when slow moving horse drawn carriage and single piston cars were on the streets. Bicycles do not belong on automotive streets, it is dangerous and inefficient to traffic. Cyclists should be on the sidewalk and be courteous of pedestrians. Having dedicated bike lanes isn't going to incentivize a huge surge of cyclists or greener methods of transportation. Its a grand expenditure of tax dollars that serves a very small minority of people. This is an ineffective showboating policy that will do very little. Invest and incentivise public transit and keep bicycles on the sidewalk. Having a bigger fleet of buses and reliable time effective schedules is how you make actual changes in deterring the volume of vehicle usage and traffic. Having a god awful transit system is the root of the problem. Ffs solving these issues is abundantly clear.
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