Walking and Cycling Infrastructure

[CanadianTalk]

The city is proposing a new two-way protected cycling path on the east side of Boler Road between Southdale and Commissioners.

These new cycling paths would connect Byron to the Thames Valley Parkway in Springbank Park, and it would even connect all of Lambeth to the TVP as well via Boler to Southdale to Colonel Talbot. New cycling paths will be installed on Col Talbot when the road is upgraded next year.

https://getinvolved.london.ca/bikeboler

[tyeman200]

I was thinking, they need to redo Adelaide Street between Bradley and Southdale, and do what they did on Bradley Avenue with the bike paths.

Then we can go back to 2 lanes like it was, and the bikes can be on the side, where there is more than enough room for a bike path and sidewalk. It would ensure more ppl use them, as most people I see on bikes here already use the sidewalk and not the road bike lanes.

[Djeffery]

Is there a need for that stretch of Adelaide to be 2 lanes each way? I've never been stuck in any kind of traffic on there.

[jammer139]

Bradley between Wellington and Highbury needs to be widened to 5 lanes first.

[CanadianTalk]

It's been a while since there were updates on this project, but here is a new presentation from the City on the proposed pedestrian/cyclist bridge on Richmond, north of Sunningdale.

https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=105481

It looks like the detailed design will be finished in February 2024, it does not say when construction would start.

This new bridge would facilitate an "east-west recreational pathway corridor along the northern boundary of the city".










Here is a long-term vision for the pathway. Red is the proposed pathway as part of this project. The green pathway is already constructed, and the yellow lines to the east are potential future pathways when those lands get developed eventually.

When Sunningdale gets widened between Richmond and Wonderland, a new bridge will be built over the Medway Creek which would have an underpass for pedestrians and cyclists, thus connecting the Medway Valley trail south of Sunningdale to the new pathway to the north.

[Djeffery]

Thanks for the update. I was up there yesterday and was reminded of that project, and I did glance around as I went by and wondered where this overpass was actually supposed to go. It's a very non-London design, I'm looking forward to seeing it go in.

[jammer139]

Finally some progress on this. Hopefully they get it into the budget soon so they can tender it and get it built. Now if only they would get on with building the multi-use path thru the Medway Valley south of Fanshawe Rd to connect all this to the Western campus so we can have a fully connected path network.

[inimrepus]

Originally Posted by Djeffery

It's a very non-London design, I'm looking forward to seeing it go in.

Don't worry, by the time it gets built it will be very bland and pointless.

[tyeman200]

Originally Posted by jammer139

Bradley between Wellington and Highbury needs to be widened to 5 lanes first.

This I agree with. It's been far overdue, I'd say like 15 years overdue.

[tyeman200]

Originally Posted by inimrepus

Don't worry, by the time it gets built it will be very bland and pointless.

I wonder how long it will take for vandals to smash those glass panes lol.

[MolsonExport]

No safe way to bike to UWO without cutting through back roads. Sarnia? Nope, bike lanes only part of the way. Western Road, surely? Nope. Bike lanes only for a small portion of this road, despite passing through campus: a place where literally thousands of people bike through/to, regularly.

Cars, though. We gotta make sure we always have enough lanes for cars. Think of all the poor pickup truck owners who need to drive to get a coffee!


Rant aside, I would LOVE to see a bike lane connection between Gainsborough Rd. and Windermere Road. At least, some pedestrian crossing over Medway creek in that vicinity. For some reason, the pedestrian bridges seem to end up in Eastern London.

[jammer139]

Report on possible future multi-use path improvement projects


Cycling Infrastructure Highlights
2024 to 2026
• Colonel Talbot Multi-Use Path & Cycle Track
• Southdale Rd to James St
• Wellington Multi-Use Path
• Base Line Rd to White Oaks Mall
• Boler Two-Way Cycle Track
• Commissioners Rd to Southdale Rd
• Pond Mills & Commissioners Cycle Tracks
• Protected intersection and filling in gaps
• Western & Sarnia Cycle Tracks
• Protected intersection and filling in gaps
• Sarnia Road CP Crossing
• New pathway linking Sarnia Road to Sandbar St
• Old Victoria Hospital Lands
• Extend south branch TVP east to Maitland St
• Stoney Creek Valley
• Connect Stoney Creek Valley Pathway to the TVP
• TVP North Branch
• Extend TVP north branch (west of Thames River) from
Oxford St to Beaufort St
• Hyde Park Rotary Trail
• Extend pathway from Fanshawe Park Rd to
Sunningdale Rd



https://pub-london.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=109303

[jammer139]

LFP article on motions to cut costs.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/next-on-city-councils-cost-cutting-agenda-axing-new-bike-lanes

[MolsonExport]

Of course they won't touch the ever-increasing police budget.

[CanadianTalk]

Originally Posted by jammer139

LFP article on motions to cut costs.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/next-on-city-councils-cost-cutting-agenda-axing-new-bike-lanes

Absolutely ridiculous. I’d be curious to see how much of the roads budget (and overall property tax budget) is actually dedicated to cycling infrastructure… probably not a lot, plus I recall reading at one point that much of the funding comes from federal/provincial dollars that can only be used for active transportation projects. This is all to say that even if the city stopped building cycling lanes, there would be virtually no impact to the property tax hikes, which directly contradicts this councillor’s claim, which sadly is often the case for this particular councillor.

Plus many of our cycling lanes are installed when the roads are torn up for construction anyway (Southdale, Sunningdale, etc)

And to Molson’s point, this is the same councillor that vociferously championed the increased police budget, which accounted for a vast vast majority of the property tax hike last year.

[bolognium]

Shocker that the two most backwards councillors are proposing this.

A driver's seat under every ass!

[CanadianTalk]

Great news...councillors voted down Susan Stevenson's motion in a decisive 4-10 vote. Had it passed, it would have asked staff to report back on the details of future bike lane projects for potential delay or cancellation.

The 4 councillors who voted in support were Stevenson, Van Meerbergen, Rahman, and Hillier. Lewis was absent. All others voted against.

https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/london-budget-politicians-mull-service-cuts-fee-hikes

[MolsonExport]

Van Meerbergen

Does this guy ever go away?

[jammer139]

Interesting to see they cleaned up and paved a path north of Sarnia Rd to the arched bridge over the CP track near the Greek Club soccer field. This was always just an adhoc dirt pathway and now is nicely paved.