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Originally Posted by trueviking
The path is busy for sure. Its a great path like the one through Assiniboine forest. Completely useless for trying to go anywhere but nice for a wander. I agree that Pembina sucks to ride your bike down, but that's the point. Our cycling infrastructure needs to be need to be designed for transportation not recreation. A garden path a few kilometers over is not a replacement.
Total waste of money. It's the same with the route down regent they were looking at. The point of transit should not be to shuttle suburbanites from the furthest possible distance to downtown with no use in between. It should be where the most people possible can use it to go between stops. There are only two useful stops right now. Osborne and university. And becasue the transit is so far out of the way, the AT path loses all connectivity.
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Maybe once you've had a chance to cool down and reflect objectively on the active transportation infrastructure attached to this project, you'll reconsider.
This is a cycling spine for the entire southwest of the City, where there's a already a growing AT network. Almost every major corridor has an off-street path, at least for major stretches. That includes Bishop Grandin, McGillivray, Bison, and Sterling Lyon for east west, and Pembina, Waverley, and Kenaston for north south. This new pathway ties it all together. No destinations? Along this network, you can get to U of M, downtown, Osborne Village, countless stores and retail clusters, Fort Whyte, St. Vital, Bridgwater Centre and the list goes on, with the exception of a few key gaps. What destinations are you dying to get to that you can't along this network?
If you're not a fan of park and ride, you can also bike and ride. There are great bike storage facilities at the stations. Full bike lockers, like you're see in Copenhagan or whatever European cyclist capital-du-jour you want to reference next. What a great option for someone who wants to commute more sustainably, or doesn't want to pay $250 a month to park downtown.
The network that's growing in the southwest and elsewhere in the city is exactly what Bike Winnipeg and cyclists have been advocating for. As a commuter cyclist, I welcome these changes. I'm not too sure why you're so upset with this project. Assiniboine forest trail comparison
. It's like I'm reading a post from the Jeckyl and Hyde of Winnipeg urbanism.