[FairHamilton]

Deborah and I rode our bikes (purchased from Sean at Bike Hounds, I might add) home from the Downtown Farmers Market on Saturday Morning and decided we’d take Barton Street. It was the first time I’d been on Barton since the construction/repaving had been completed.

While it was very nice to ride on a freshly paved rode, I was extremely disappointed and disheartened by the lack of bicycle lanes being incorporated into the street.

What happened to Hamilton’s Vision 2020 has it become clouded?

We have many transportation choices. We are not dependent on automobiles and trucks. An integrated transportation system serves the entire city in an affordable, efficient, and accessible way. Our transportation system improves community health by reducing the need for automobile use and making it easy and attractive to walk, cycle, skateboard or roller-blade.

Surely, repaving a roadway would be the perfect time to incorporate bike lanes. Why on earth would the City of Hamilton not apply the stated and published Vision 2020 to a project of this scope and scale? If it’s not applied to a major repaving of an East – West thoroughfare, where is it applied?

To add insult to injury the lanes are so wide I can’t get the Seinfeld episode where Kramer created the ‘Executive Lanes' out of my head. I passed a parked Cadillac (i.e. large car) without even straying close the line marking the lanes. The curb lane was humongous, and I’m confident (positive) all the other lanes are just as wide.

[ryan_mcgreal]

Surely, repaving a roadway would be the perfect time to incorporate bike lanes.

IIRC One of Mayor Eisenberger's campaign promises was to ensure that every major repaving would include bike lanes. While the updated Cycling Master Plan (raisethehammer.org/article/85) is finally moving forward after a decade of stagnation, in the meantime too many streets are getting the reno treatment without bike lanes addes.

[SteelTown]

From my understanding each time you add a bike lane on an existing road it requires an EA assesment, for example York Boulevard.

[markbarbera]

IIRC One of Mayor Eisenberger's campaign promises was to ensure that every major repaving would include bike lanes. While the updated Cycling Master Plan (raisethehammer.org/article/85) is finally moving forward after a decade of stagnation, in the meantime too many streets are getting the reno treatment without bike lanes addes.

Wasn't the recently completed work on Barton just a resurfacing and not a major repaving project?

[matt602]

It was just a resurfacing, yes. There were also some sidewalk pieces replaced, which was a shoddy job. The sidewalk along that part of Barton features red brickwork along the edge. Sometimes this was replaced, other times lines were cut into the concrete to make it look like some kind of concrete brickwork.

[omro]

other times lines were cut into the concrete to make it look like some kind of concrete brickwork.

That's at the bottom of my street and looks CRAP :yuck: