That will work well in the winter. This isn’t Vancouver. Bike riders will only be using four months of the year. Real smart.

Lol the city is awash in new bike lanes and yet the people on bikes still ride on the wrong side of the road.

just because it’s a bike lane doesn’t mean you get to ride on the wrong side of the street.

“According to ICBC stats, the intersection of 4th and Winnipeg has been the scene of 23 crashes over the past 4 years”

Well duh. It’s a stop sign when it should have been lights.

The way that the city decided to make the lines on the road is absolutely frightening. And as acrider54 said…WTF are people supposed to do in the winter?

“Well duh. It’s a stop sign when it should have been lights”-
there have been lights there for a long time

“”Well duh. It’s a stop sign when it should have been lights”-
there have been lights there for a long time”

Yes of course. Silly me was thinking of the next intersection. Move along. :)

I dont mind it, because it will stop the racing between the lanes. Slows the traffic down. Especially with Duchess now being so close to Winnipeg.

They did it to Westwood, its much better than it was before.

I’m curious what’s going to happen when all those soccer Moms start dropping their kids off at school and park on the road (even though they’re not supposed to) and are blocking the driving lane. It was bad enough when it was a 4 lane road, but now with just the single lane it’s going to be chaos next week.

I don’t understand why there is so much lawn when they could have put a pull in for a drop off zone right in front of the school.

Actually acrider, the bike season is from April to October. That’s 7 months. And the new laning is great. Much more visability on this section of road. When it was four lanes, I watched many many motorist zoom through the crosswalks in the school zone, almost hitting pedestrians. And while there are many bike lanes in the City, this is one of the only ones than doesn’t allow parking. A bike lane doesn’t actually serve as a bike lane if it’s full of parked cars.
Kudos to the City and ICBC for this great new laning.

saywhat: Not to mention all the sidewalk and crosswalk bike riders too. I really wish the police would crack down on that.

What I don’t understand is why the center turning lane is so much wider than the driving lanes. Maybe that’s so the people who are in the habit of swinging ‘way right before they turn left and vice versa have room to do that. Seems like the painters or the layout people didn’t do their math quite right.

Maybe the folks that are worried about how this will change winter driving in this section of road will pick another route. Isn’t this one lane in the winter anyway with all the snow piled in the middle?

Should be lights on 3rd and winnipeg

Bike lanes are only useful if people don’t park their cars in them. Maybe a little parking enforcement on the city’s part could keep them clear.

It is Vancouver and 4th that has no lights. I used to have a 6th floor office in the Scotia Building overlooking that intersection. The frequency of near misses was astounding.

I find it very difficult to see oncoming traffic from 4th when traveling north on Winnipeg. I know an island there would do squat. Am not sure what an island at Winnipeg would do.

I noticed that the picture has neither cars or bicycles in it …. perhaps we can put a grass strip down the centre and plant some trees instead of all that pavement …. ;-)

“Bike lanes are only useful if people bike” … the chicken or the egg …..

Saw a program on Copenhagen the other day. There are more bikes in the city than there are people. Talk about 2 bike families, eh? …

And they USE them. 50% of residents bike to work. What is the stat for PG? 1%? I doubt it is that many.

Do something about 5th Avenue east of the Bypass for bikes …..

Implement bike lanes in the CBD similar to Vancouver.

What about bike lanes on 15th?

There are bike lanes on 10th, but people park in them big time around the Phoenix Medical Building …..

Hi Gus,
You should refer to the City’s Active Transportation Plan. It includes ammendments to address all these issues. Unfortunately, Council has chosen not to allocate any budget towards the implementation of the plan.

I’d like to see a bike/roller blade lane that takes one from the Hart down Foothills to North Nechako and the Haritage areas. Maybe offset from the main road and taking advantage of some of the spectacular viewscapes.

The Hart is under serviced in parks and bike lane opportunities to get to town. 25% of the city population gets no consideration when it comes to access to recreation of this sort and IMO the Hart should form its own municipality so money from property taxes can be properly allocated back into the Hart.

I drove south on Winnipeg today and looked at the bike lanes. I think the whole street has taken on a better arrangement. There is not enough traffic on it, I think, to warrant 4 lanes. I am just hoping that not too many people will go 30 or 40kph on it instead of 50kph.

It is not as if it is something that cannot be undone. Putting physical “islands” in, however, rather than painted ones, ends up becomig expensive to rearrange the “furniture” at a later date.

I saw, as I drove under the 15th avenue overpass, that the bike lane nicely peters out to nothing on Massey. There is not even a curb cut that allows a cylcist to move up to a sidewalk level. The road simply returns to a 4 lane from a two lane. There is no sign to that effect, I believe.

Eagleone … I do not believe there are any shoulders on highways passing through the City which are wide enough to take bikes.

There is no restriction of bikes on normal provincial highways. Provincial highways have shoulders which are sometimes generous enough for bikes, and other times they are not. So, cars move over.

So, the Hart is a highway and one would have to get the province to provide the bikeways.

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The other day I saw a bicylist riding on Tyner Blvd which has next to no shoulders. In the meantime, there is a perfectly good and very safe pathway which was just built removed from the motor vehicle lane for good reason. I do not know whether that pathway is restricted to pedestrians. If it isn’t, I think there need to be some signs put up similar to 5th that the road is not for use of bicyclists.

I wonder how mnay accidents there are involving bikes on highways.

It’s much better now than it was before! Not perfect, but much safer!

The Hart Highway is definitely not safe for bicyclists. There is just no room for error there. That is why a bicycle trail from the Hart down foothills makes the most sense IMO. Connected to the river trails and the downtown via North Nechako road would be ideal.

I like the idea of getting the province to pay for it considering the shape of the Hart highway :)