Just noticed this - the City has identified the next potential location for a bike lane. A lane of 1st St SE (Macleod South) will be converted.
The city is set to unveil plans for a major new downtown cycle track, offering protection for cyclists on a road that stretches from the Bow to the Elbow Rivers, and services such facilities as Olympic Plaza, the Epcor Centre, Stampede Park and a number of major employment centres, including The Bow skyscraper and the planned 58-storey Telus Sky tower.
Unlike the city’s first downtown separated bike lane constructed earlier this year on 7th Street S.W., this plan is being embraced by business groups who say it is being located in a logical location that could serve as a major transportation link and help revitalize street-level business in some areas.
The cycle track, the next step in a developing plan to build a network of bike lanes downtown protected from vehicle traffic by concrete barriers, will see a two-way cycle track built on the east side of 1st Street S.E. stretching from the busy pathways along the Bow River through downtown and the Beltline to the Elbow River near Lindsay Park.
While there's lots of nods from the public at large, as a daily cyclist - that's a bit too eastward to get you to the "Core" of downtown. Yes it's a good N/S route but it doesn't do anything if you want to get to the main towers between 1st SW and 6th SW. Still better than nothing... guess the way to address this will be a E/W route along 7th (or thereabouts)...make it happen!
As a motorist - I'm not convinced that's the best spot either. The left turn off the 6th Ave Flyover into Macleod is busy enough without losing a lane...
http://blogs.calgaryherald.com/2013/...ntown-calgary/