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Originally Posted by MarchHare
Quoting myself because I saw yet another ###### cyclist at the same intersection during my walk home from work today. This moron decided that he'd rather ride on the sidewalk and cycle through crosswalks even though there is a dedicated bike lane two feet to his right. I watched him do this for two blocks along 11th St. (from 10th Ave to 12th Ave). The stupid camera app on my iPhone didn't load fast enough for me to get a photo of him using the sidewalk instead of the bike lane, but I did get this shot of him cycling through a crosswalk.
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Here's a Google Maps street view of the same intersection clearly showing the perfectly good bike path that he wasn't using. |
I need to learn how to read, I thought that he was driving a car while taking a picture of a cyclist, not walking! My mistake.
Living in Edmonton though, they don't have a speed limit on the bike paths in the river valley and I find that they are used a lot more than the bike paths in Calgary. I think that if the city really wanted to cut down on cyclists in the main routes they would been to put high speed bike paths where there are the current pathways, this would allow for everyone to be safer and for a faster commute by cyclists as well. Have bike routes on roads that lead to the paths whenever possible. A cyclist will never be as fast as a car, I can usually hold a constant speed of around 30 km/h, depending on hills, so sometimes a driver may need to take an extra 10 seconds on their commute to pass, it isn't the end of the world and no reason to get upset in my opinion, the difference in time is going to be negligible at best