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Originally Posted by Migrant_Coconut
Again, I don't think you'd find many opponents of having bike infrastructure on most side streets. This argument started when the Stanley Park seawall was reduced from two to one; ditto Broadway, which is already losing two lanes to sidewalks (a good thing), and now may lose two of the remaining four to bike lanes (not really a good thing). That's half. Nanaimo and the 7 seem to be doing okay, but that stretch wasn't particularly crowded to begin with.
Given Paris' usual M.O., we can expect most of that new space to be taken up by pedestrian-only streets and bus lanes.
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I don't think it's the seawall that had a bike lane added in Stanley Park - it's the road that loops round, and it's not exactly an arterial.
Broadway may or may not lose lanes for bikes; if it does, it would be a change in policy, and would signal that the City are serious about bike infrastructure. It still wouldn't push the amount of road space allocated for bikes close to their mode share.
Paris has
a huge program adding permanent, segregated bike lanes starting now, for several years. Their mode share will probably go above 5% quite fast.
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