Everything Bicycles | Winnipeg

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

AT pathways are well used by everyone, walkers, joggers, cyclists, physically challenged with defvices, rollerbladers, scooters…..dedicated bike lanes serve very few aside from 20-40 mostly white entitled males!

takes vision to build it so people will use it.


same issue with electric cars inless we build infrastructure for it it wont be

did you know its now code in the CEC to provide a circut for a car charger in a new residential service

[GreyGarden]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Throughout the last winter and in past winters the stand alone bike paths were cleared before sidewalks and in a lot of cases some sidewalks were never cleared properly if at all!

You can’t keep clearing the downtown bike lanes for 20 people to use and leave sidewalks on bus routes untouched for days and weeks!

This is a nonsense take. Most days I walk along Westminster and while portions of the bike lane may have been "clear" in the winter, large portions had giant piles of snow dumped in them making it pretty much unusable. Further, using the word "clear" is a stretch, maybe some snow was pushed around but nowhere close to an actual plow or scrape to the pavement.

The reality in Winnipeg is that sidewalks and bike lanes don't get adequately cleared and maintained which in the majority of the city is totally fine with me. But in the inner city where people walk, take transit and bike, its an enormous headache from November to April. I could care less if walking paths or AT paths aren't cleared in Bridgewater or other distant suburbs, because they're mainly recreational. They should be cleared, but everyone in those areas drives as their primary mode of transportation so its not a big deal in terms of completing daily tasks. That dynamic does not exist in Osborne or West Broadway.

[bomberjet]

http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/perm...0420(RM)EPC-81

Here is the active transportation funding thing I was talking about. Not sure what it actually means at this point. Seems like trying to enforce the City spending money on AT instead of non roads.

[michelleb]

Some guys fall off their bike once and never get over it.

[Ando]

I don't think it was his knee that he fell on.

[BarbadosSlim]

https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/manitoba...ails-1.5883403

Looks like the NW Hydro Corridor will finally be getting an AT path from Leila to Church.

[thebasketballgeek]

I’m really excited for the Hydro corridor bike lane. Hopefully they put up pedestrian crossing lights similar to the ones seen in Pembina on major crossings like Inkster and Jefferson.

Since phase 1 only goes to Church Ave, I hope that the full project entails extending it all the way to the casino. They could even make Jarvis/Sutherland a neighborhood greenway to provide residents a direct route to Main St into the entrance of Downtown. Sutherland also connects to Disraeli and Higgins so it would be a quite effective east-west route considering the higher bike ridership in the North End. In a dream world one could even create a pedestrian bridge to connect to Watt and then meander to Nairn extending all the way to Transcona.

Although I would much prefer if they remove the on-street parking on Selkirk and install a protected bike lane instead. A lot of opportunities open up for improving bike infrastructure in the North End and that all starts with this hydro corridor.

[zalf]

Engagement survey and map for the St Boniface to Downtown Walk Bike Project:

https://engage.winnipeg.ca/stboniface-walk-bike

Fill it in if you can, and help the city justify building proper bike infrastructure in a core neighbourhood.

I'm glad to see putting protected lanes directly on Provencher was the most popular choice through Phase 1, as it's the only one that offers cyclists proper safety improvements and access to businesses.

[BuildUpWpg]

Does anyone know if the rest of Empress Street is going to get upgraded anytime soon? This last reconstruction and accompanying bike lane only goes as far north as Ellice I think. Then the beautiful bike lane ends abruptly (like most do in the city). Continuing further north to garbage hill is a worn path in the grass along Empress. It's a no brainer to continue the bike path to garbage hill, as lot of runners and cyclists go there for training from Wellington Cres (as the worn path demonstrates).

[Authentic_City]

Originally Posted by BuildUpWpg

Does anyone know if the rest of Empress Street is going to get upgraded anytime soon? This last reconstruction and accompanying bike lane only goes as far north as Ellice I think. Then the beautiful bike lane ends abruptly (like most do in the city). Continuing further north to garbage hill is a worn path in the grass along Empress. It's a no brainer to continue the bike path to garbage hill, as lot of runners and cyclists go there for training from Wellington Cres (as the worn path demonstrates).

Good question. The bike lane on Empress (which I agree is great, by the way) ends at St Matthews. I’d like to see the path go up to garbage hill, and some sort of pedestrian and bike overpass built at Wellington over the tracks to join up with a bike friendly route through the west end. I hate that Wellington deadends at those tracks. They should also build a proper bike lane on Wellington east from Garbage Hill to connect with the Berry Street / Sherwin Rd bike corridor to RRCC.

[esquire]

^ I can appreciate that Wellington residents might not want their road to be used as a car thoroughfare to the airport so the lack of a railway crossing for vehicles makes sense, but a crossing for bikes seems like a no-brainer.

Also, widening Empress is challenging because I think it is maxed out due to the presence of Omand's Creek alongside it.

[Authentic_City]

Originally Posted by esquire

^ I can appreciate that Wellington residents might not want their road to be used as a car thoroughfare to the airport so the lack of a railway crossing for vehicles makes sense, but a crossing for bikes seems like a no-brainer.

Also, widening Empress is challenging because I think it is maxed out due to the presence of Omand's Creek alongside it.

True, Empress is hemmed in by the Creek (which is pretty much a straight drainage ditch between St Matthew’s and garbage hill), but there is room enough for a winding gravel path beside Walmart. It’s weird that there isn’t even a proper sidewalk along Empress for much of the way, but there are bus stops on Empress at Ellice and Sargent. Other than the dirt path, how do they expect people to walk to those bus stops? Maybe the road can’t be widened, but surely a walking and cycling path could be put in along the creek.

Yeah, for sure, I’d want to keep Wellington closed to vehicle traffic, but some kind of overpass over the rail yard would be ideal for bikes and pedestrians. Personally, I’d like to see something like the rusty rainbow in the New Orleans Bywater area.

[post_man]

Are we doing name ideas yet? Garbridge?

[rrskylar]

Now the white male bicycle elitist snowflakes are crying about a little sand on bikeways, poor babies have to grip the handlebars a little tighter, oh the horror of it all!

[zalf]

Sand-on-pavement is for bikes what black ice is for cars.

I'm fully cognizant of the futility trying to convince rrskylar on the validity of bikes as an actual means of transport that real people use. This post is more for the benefit of any other users or lurkers who might be passing by.

[rrskylar]

Originally Posted by zalf

Sand-on-pavement is for bikes what black ice is for cars.

I'm fully cognizant of the futility trying to convince rrskylar on the validity of bikes as an actual means of transport that real people use. This post is more for the benefit of any other users or lurkers who might be passing by.

Rode for 1.5 hours today, survived Winnipeg’s roads, of course I don’t need to be coddled like some of the entitled snowflake riders!

[BuildUpWpg]

Originally Posted by Authentic_City

Good question. The bike lane on Empress (which I agree is great, by the way) ends at St Matthews. I’d like to see the path go up to garbage hill, and some sort of pedestrian and bike overpass built at Wellington over the tracks to join up with a bike friendly route through the west end. I hate that Wellington deadends at those tracks. They should also build a proper bike lane on Wellington east from Garbage Hill to connect with the Berry Street / Sherwin Rd bike corridor to RRCC.

The bike friendly route through West End is actually St. Matthews according to the city cycling map (of which there is a new one out now).

[BuildUpWpg]

Originally Posted by rrskylar

Rode for 1.5 hours today, survived Winnipeg’s roads, of course I don’t need to be coddled like some of the entitled snowflake riders!

I'd love to take you on a bike tour of the pathway systems in Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Minneapolis, and even Saskatoon (all snowy cities). Then maybe afterwards you'll grumble (at least to yourself anyway) about wanting better cycling infrastructure in our city.

[Authentic_City]

Originally Posted by BuildUpWpg

The bike friendly route through West End is actually St. Matthews according to the city cycling map (of which there is a new one out now).

True, St Matthew’s is the preferred route from the city’s perspective, but aside from painted lines on the road and a few curb bump-outs, it’s not a safe or well designed bike route, and the traffic is fairly heavy. Wellington is actually a better route with less traffic. Last year it was partially closed to vehicular traffic on weekends. Plus it gets me where I need to go and I can more easily connect to the McDermott bike lane at HSC. Much better than St Matthew’s.

[zalf]

In honour of Bike Week, I present to you the punji sticks in the Bannatyne bike lane. Don't slip!