Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

[Northern Light]

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Walking down Gladstone yesterday - the section between Peel and Queen only have painted lanes, instead of any protection/curb/etc between cars and cycling - anybody know why? seems like the ROW is wide enough have protected cycling while still having space for emergency vehicles

The car lanes are as narrow as you're going to get.

The space you seek is occupied on the right by parked cars.

The parking should, ideally, have been eliminated in favour of physical separation. But that just wasn't on back when this was designed.

That's unfortunate, nothing that can't be worked on over time, but haven't just done a reconstruction here, this will probably stay this way for a quite awhile.

 

[Admiral Beez]

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Walking down Gladstone yesterday - the section between Peel and Queen only have painted lanes, instead of any protection/curb/etc between cars and cycling - anybody know why? seems like the ROW is wide enough have protected cycling while still having space for emergency vehicles

Paint is not infrastructure. When are our municipal planners and their overseers going to understand this? Sidewalks are never separated from cars by paint, neither should cycle lanes.