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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Calgary ranks 5th out of 163 large (300k+) cities in North America for its biking network. Hardly an embarrassment.
https://cityratings.peopleforbikes.o...ies/calgary-ab
The busiest stretches have been substantially improved the last decade: the Bow River riverwalk; near Heritage Park and Glenmore Landing; South Glenmore Park; North Glenmore Park. The paths have been widened and twinned with separate pedestrian and cyclist paths in those areas (which people ignore because they can’t/won’t follow simple signage).
Much of the pathway system is along wooded river embankments or hillsides. The landscaping, grading, and tree removal would be an enormous and costly job. I don’t know how many hundreds of trees we’d have to rip out and thousands of cubic meters of dirt we’d have to move just to widen the 15 km of the reservoir pathway (never mind the other 985 km of pathways in the system).
I mean, it would be nice to have wider paths. I just don’t know how practical it is. It’s certainly not something that could be “easily resolved.” Are there cities with extensive bike path systems like Calgary’s where the paths are substantially wider? |
Ah, the "we have so many km of path" bull#### number. Have you actually been on a lot of them? they are garbage. As top the rest of your defeatist post, you sound like someone who works for the city. The Edworthy to downtown section has challenges, sure, but it's not like we don't have challenges building roads, and the city doesn't just shrug and say "good enough". There are plenty of sections with no trees in the way that wider paths could be put in. Or do split paths and separate users. People with your attitude are why we still have what we have.