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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
100%. As a cyclist I don’t want to be in the same lane as a car. As a driver I hate having cyclists in the same lane as I am. Bike lanes, especially an extensive, well maintained network of them, benefit everyone.
It’s hard to believe people are still crying about the few we have.
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I really hate how poor of a job our city does at many things... bike lanes seem especially badly executed.
With the cyclist fatality on 26th ave SW just a few days back it really aggravates me that they couldn't have just moved the bike lanes a block north and pushed it through the community (with proper infrastructure like lights and barricades). Right now the only thing separating the cars and the bikes on 26th ave is a line of paint and I often see cars crossing that line to whip around turning cars or whatever.
For downtown my idea will be especially radical. I think the city should evict the trains from the city. Every time I see those trains full of tanker cars going through downtown I wonder how much damage it would be if it exploded (like Lac-Mégantic).
Instead, move the train yard outside of the city (maybe make it a battle between Airdrie and Okotoks to determine if the new train tracks go north or south of Calgary) and reclaim the land currently allocated to trains within the city. The train tracks that run through downtown would convert into a bike highway and the train yard in Ogden could become a massive density housing project that would immediately add tens of thousands of inner city housing.
Then build all of the other bike lanes to essentially get to the legacy train tracks to then get downtown safely with almost no cars (except for that stupid crossing on 11th street SW).