On-street bicycle lane removed

[speedog]

Fucking Nenshi....

Wait a minute...

On-street bicycle lane removed - link to news article.

[Gestalt]

Noone rides bicycles in Calgary.

Fucking purple man

[J-hop]

Great to see they are willing to get rid of some that don’t make sense.

Still waiting for them to remove Northland drive. Literally no one uses them.

[g-m]

remove 12 ave! They are an abortion

[rage2]

What's hilarious is that of all places that should have a bike lane, it's 1st Ave. NE. A large number of students from Langevin ride bikes to school daily, and rely on the sidewalks. The handful of times I've ridden in with our oldest to school there, we wouldn't dare use the roads and ride along the sidewalks with all the other kids. The traffic there is pretty heavy and unpredictable, single lane, uncontrolled left turns, makes it a daunting task to have good communications between drivers and cyclists.

[flipstah]

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remove 12 ave! They are an abortion

YES, please.

[88CRX]

Until 12th Ave is fixed... 'fuckin Nenshi'.

[sneek]

Interesting decision...I live in the area and I didn't know about it until I saw it. Lukes does need more parking but I am not sure this is wise because many residents/students use that path to get to and from Edmonton trail's bike lane.

[Manhattan]

They've put in one way bike lanes on 14th and 15th Ave. There's a chance those will replace the 12th Ave bike lanes and still make the cycle track work.

[born2workoncars]

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remove 12 ave! They are an abortion

Did you mean aberration or abhorrent?

[JRSC00LUDE]

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Did you mean aberration or abhorrent?

Abomination?

[flipstah]

Arboration?

[ExtraSlow]

http://business.financialpost.com/op...moting-cycling
Cities make a huge mistake promoting cycling

[J-hop]

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http://business.financialpost.com/op...moting-cycling
Cities make a huge mistake promoting cycling

Pretty much how I feel about them even as what I would consider an avid cyclist. They increase pollution by causing congestion. They negatively impact businesses along bike routes by decreasing accessibility and at the end of the day benefit an extremely small minority.

The garbage you always hear is “people need to change and stop driving”. Yea, the guy living in seton should be biking 30+km to work every day. Thanks but with that logic I’m surprised you can tie your bike shoes in the morning.

[suntan]

"Mamils". Heh.

Also I'm glad somebody besides me noticed that it's all rich white guys that keep wanting this shit.

[buh_buh]

Coming from a guy that uses the downtown cycletrack daily, I don't think it should be a on congested street like 12th Ave. They'll probably get rid of it eventually in lieu of the ones they put on 14th and 15th going in opposite directions. I'd have no issues with that.

[hurrdurr]

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Coming from a guy that uses the downtown cycletrack daily, I don't think it should be a on congested street like 12th Ave. They'll probably get rid of it eventually in lieu of the ones they put on 14th and 15th going in opposite directions. I'd have no issues with that.

I walk several blocks up 12th ave every day and the amount of cyclist is hilariously low. One day I seen a sign that said there was over 800 cyclist that day, must have been a glitch or Nenshi propaganda.

[Xtrema]

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Coming from a guy that uses the downtown cycletrack daily, I don't think it should be a on congested street like 12th Ave. They'll probably get rid of it eventually in lieu of the ones they put on 14th and 15th going in opposite directions. I'd have no issues with that.

12th make sense because 14th and 15th got too many residential parking.

As I have said many times before, it should be extended east to west end to end completely and it should not create that BS land shuffle in front of the school.

Who cares if it's used in winter or not.

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The garbage you always hear is “people need to change and stop driving”. Yea, the guy living in seton should be biking 30+km to work every day. Thanks but with that logic I’m surprised you can tie your bike shoes in the morning.

The change in habit is to not living in Seton at all. Urban crawl is too expensive.

[Mitsu3000gt]

I literally moved because of that bike lane, it was not a decision I took lightly. I gave it the one year for "evaluation" and when they decided to keep it, I moved out. It was that bad.

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12th make sense because 14th and 15th got too many residential parking.

12th ave makes zero sense. 10th ave already has a bike lane, and has much fewer stop lights so it was much preferable, especially given the incredibly small amount of bike traffic. 12th ave sees around 20,000 vehicles a day, and it is reduced to 1 lane in parts to accommodate what is usually 0-200 bikes a day instead of smooth flowing traffic for around 15,000 more vehicles. They also completely botched the parking situation, have jogging lanes, and extremely unsafe turning lanes. It's a fucking disaster. People are always illegally parked on it too because the bike lanes removed a huge amount of parking. My gym was 10 blocks away and sometimes took me 30+ minutes to get there instead of 3-4 mins. If there was a Flames game I couldn't even get out of my area.

[buh_buh]

14th and 15th already exists since they turned everything into a one way.
And the counters based on what I've seen are actually accurate. When I come in the mornings, I see the counter move up one number when I ride past and anywhere between #40-60, and on my way home depending on how nice it is 900-1000.