It should be interesting to see how this pans out. When there is an accident/construction and a lane is closed downtown, the delay seems surely more than a minute but hey, maybe we are talking an "Airdrie minute" here.
I assume these reduced lanes will be carried year round even in the winter and snow?
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/ca...453/story.html
City engineers are predicting another trade-off when downtown bike lines replace car space next year: hundreds more cyclists get safe routes, while drivers alongside them could experience about a minute more of peak-hour congestion.
A new report lays out the targets that define success for the approved one-year trial for the network of barrier-separated cycle tracks downtown. Cyclist volumes will double or triple but collision rates will drop or stay flat, while businesses shouldn’t suffer.
The one group experiencing any measure of pain, according to the targets, is motorists on the routes expected to lose traffic lanes, including 5th Street S.W. and 12th Avenue S.
During peak hours, a successful bike lane trial would increase travel times on those corridors by 20 per cent or less. For a five-minute jog across the Beltline, that would suggest it grows to six minutes when one lane is turned over exclusively to cyclists next July.