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Originally Posted by atbw
Of the streets highlighted in orange, Morris St, Almon St, Cogswell, North St. and Wyse Road are the streets that may lose some space to cyclists. Cogswell and Wyse absolutely have room to be trimmed as they're quite overbuilt. Morris connects to the University lane and is a natural fit for an extended lane. North and Almon are the only two places I can see it being a tight squeeze.
Cyclists don't get hit in protected lanes. They get hit where they mix with high speed traffic and have no lane at all. Nowhere in this plan does that happen.
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Morris, Almon and North are all going to be dangerously narrowed as they are already too narrow for the amount of vehicular traffic they create. Removing parking as will be required on those streets will result in some very agitated homeowners/renters/business owners as we have already seen with the ridiculous Allan, Gottingen and Vernon/Seymour changes. And even if the lanes are "protected" with plastic bollards, there is zero protection at intersections. Given the proclivity of cyclists to ignore signals or other traffic rules, that will always be a very dangerous area and I fully expect the "protection" they enjoy when traveling on those streets will give them a false sense of security at intersections.
Some sense needs to be injected into the HRM planners.
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