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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Calgary has done a quite remarkable job of building these already. In fact we're probably the best in North America.
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Yes, Calgary already has the best dedicated bike infrastructure in North America. It’s 17km by bike from my house to my office downtown. I can do 14k of that on dedicated cycling/pedestrian pathways. That’s pretty incredible - there are very few cities in the world this size where cyclists can get from far-flung suburbs to the edge of the urban core largely on dedicated paths.
It’s the final few km that are tricky. The roads in the inner core are necessarily congested (for a city its population, Calgary has a very dense core), and each commuter has a different destination among the hundreds of buildings in that core. It’s similar to the final km problem in shipping fulfillment.