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Originally Posted by Bunk
Go to Stephen Ave at morning or evening rush hour and you can shoot a cannon down the middle of the road. The pedestrians that are there naturally stick to the sidewalk portion. It's not really a "lane" it's just granting cyclists legal access to the street pretty much as is. It'll work well.
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Stephen Ave is already a bike lane at 7:00am.
Pedestrians in the morning commute, (of which I am one of), regularly use the middle of the road, along with tons of people crossing N/S from exiting the CTrain, and are forced to watch out for these idiots racing along the entire length of it.
Use the section of 8th ave between 3rd and 2nd St for example - the "sidewalk" section of that block is pretty much unusable on either side with how many things are in the way, so walking down the road section for that block is standard.
There is zero enforcement of the no bikes after 6:00am law, and obviously no desire to improve signage or enforce that law. Is it packed at 7 like it is at lunch? No, obviously not. But does that mean just because it isn't a zoo, cyclists should be able to use it as a bypass? Guess it does as nothing is done to fix it.