Cycling in Edmonton/Building a Bike Network

[Mikemike]

Maybe, but the extra cost would be peanuts, and in some locations would have a significant impact on safety, especially at 108st where the curve makes for an uncomfortable crossing, the streets are way too wide, and the stub of 105 ave to the north will apparently continue to allow car traffic to "merge" across the bike lane. There's so much room for improvement there.

[rapid_business]

Any type of concrete work like that starts to be expensive, especially when the ultimate plan for rehabilitation of that road is a complete new road base, utility relocation, etc. I hear your sentiment, but any changes like that will have to wait until the next capital budget to see when redevelopment is happening.

[Mikemike]

Concrete work in this case would be just a few additional precast barriers and posts like on the jasper ave pilot., no site formed concrete required. Cost on the order of $10,000 per intersection, and that's doing all 4 corners, and it's all reusable.

[adam-machiavelli]

Did anyone see concrete barriers installed along 83 Avenue and 102 Avenue for the bike lanes recently? Yaaaaaay.

[Mikemike]

The precast barriers are going in on 105ave today.

[Airboy]

Pavement Grinding and concrete barrier installation going on along 102ave from 111st west today. They might be paving this weekend.

[rapid_business]

Originally Posted by Mikemike

The precast barriers are going in on 105ave today.

105 Ave is looking better already for all users (cars too) by delineating the travel lanes with lines as oppose to the wide, unmarked industrial carriageway.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

I went down 105 Ave west of 109 St the other day. Sure the bike lanes are nice, but a major sore spot for me is there are still no sidewalks along this road at all. And if that street beautification initiative ever gets going then they'll have to tear up these new bike lanes and rebuild them again?

[adam-machiavelli]

Anyone notice that new Dirtbag Cafe on the 105 Avenue bike lanes at 107 Street? Good things happening very fast!

[mintzilla]

So after 83 ave 105 and 102 what is the next stretch goal for this newfound push for bike infrastructure. I have to admit I love how fast this is happening and can't wait to get more

[Coldrsx]

I would love them to connect east whyte better.

[adam-machiavelli]

127 Street, 76 Avenue, and 106 Street are currently having protected lanes installed. The City should protect 110 Street next, then 92 Street, 114 Avenue and 119 Avenue.

[Coldrsx]

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[dancinb]

I love that all this is going on. I wish there was a better way of getting downtown without using the river valley from the east (think Capilano Pedestrian Bridge).

Staying North of the river there seems to be one option:
1. Ada blvd is great, but getting to the multi-use trail at Stadium Station from the east is virtually impossible without hitting the major roads.

South of the river, there seems to be 3 options:
1. The multi-use path along the river is ok, but it involves climbing out of the river valley 3 times.
2: The bike/pedestrian-unfriendly 106 Ave bridge over Gretzky
3: The foot bridge between Forest Heights and Terrace Heights, but that requires going the way south to 101 Ave to gain access

Does anyone use or know of any other routes?

In short: I would love to see a better connection (across Gretzky) for cyclists between Rowland Road and Hardisty Drive.

[Coldrsx]

I use the Dawson bridge/106ave to head east or back west to Downtown from those areas.

[Coldrsx]

Budget/improvement for bike lanes was a must... 105-116st on Columbia BLVD is a must next capital budget.

[Hallsy's Toupee]

If 105 Ave is going to be rebuilt next year anyway, might as well have waited until then and incorporate the bike lane into that project, and use the bike lane budget to expand the 100 Ave bike lane all the way to 116 St. Or does that make too much sense?

[Coldrsx]

The work to make it so now is minimal and needed to be done ASAP to 'complete the grid'. Columbia BLVD is still going to be 3-4yrs off min.

[Mikemike]

The 105-109 part of 105 ave wasn't bad for cycling before it was in OK shape and drivers were generally not going to fast, if it were all like that it could have waited but the 109-116 part was is horrible shape. It was completely unsuitable for cycling and it really did need to be done.

Come winter time I expect you'll see the (cleared) bike lane acting as a defacto sidewalk through that section too. The bike lane is a much cheaper temporary solution than a sidewalk would be so it makes sense.

[Coldrsx]

Our official opening of the Downtown bike grid.

Saturday August 26 from 10am-3pm


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