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London cycle paths
On 2015-11-28 10:49, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 5:12:40 AM UTC-5, Lou Holtman wrote: Op 28-11-2015 om 10:47 schreef Tosspot: Is it just me that thinks from the artists impression, that cycleway is a *ridiculous* width. It is a two way bike path. Considering people ride both ways two abreast and you want some room to pass it is not ridiculous wide. We have a lot of two way bike paths here in The Netherlands that are narrower. They are not my favorite places to ride when it is busy... Lou I don't know if they ever changed it but in the 1980s in Toronto, Canada the Martin Goodman Trail in many areas ran right beside Queen's Quay and further west ran beside Lakeshore Boulevard. Both those roads were very busy roads. The planners of the narrow Martin Goodman Trail put the westbound lane of it RIGHT NEXT to the eastbound Queen's Quay or Lakeshore Blvd. lane. The bike lane and the traffic lane were sparated by ONLY a painted line. Thus if a westbound bicyclist veered right to miss anything, they 'd be outside of the bike lane and heading west in the eatbound traffic lane. I know of at least a few instances when that happened and the bicyclist was struck by a car. It could also happen if an eatbound b icyclist bumped a westbound bicyclist and caused that westbound bicyclist to veer into traffic. This ought to be the ultimate bike path :-) http://www.duskyswondersite.com/wp-c...gion-Italy.jpg -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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London cycle paths
On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 1:49:47 PM UTC-5, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
I don't know if they ever changed it but in the 1980s in Toronto, Canada the Martin Goodman Trail in many areas ran right beside Queen's Quay and further west ran beside Lakeshore Boulevard. Both those roads were very busy roads. The planners of the narrow Martin Goodman Trail put the westbound lane of it RIGHT NEXT to the eastbound Queen's Quay or Lakeshore Blvd. lane. The bike lane and the traffic lane were sparated by ONLY a painted line. Thus if a westbound bicyclist veered right to miss anything, they 'd be outside of the bike lane and heading west in the eatbound traffic lane. I know of at least a few instances when that happened and the bicyclist was struck by a car. It could also happen if an eatbound b icyclist bumped a westbound bicyclist and caused that westbound bicyclist to veer into traffic. Queen's Quay has been completely redone. It's separated completely now, with the coupled streetcar tracks in-between the bike lanes and the road lanes. I'm not sure about Lakeshore out west though. That's Etobicoke, actually, past the Humber. |
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