The Great Canadian Running and Active Transportation Thread!

[Mikemike]

Originally Posted by RTA

^ Edmonton is great for bike commuting...if you ignore the bike lanes and just take the streets that make the most sense for your travel plans. Seriously. Most drivers are actually courteous and responsible around cyclists on the streets.

The actual bike routes and lanes are terrible, however. Worse than useless.

Yep. My route includes a great bike route on a residential road (signs only) and an opportunistic path along the LRT, but the connection between the two on "official" bike routes is a 3-block detour and crossing a major street twice. In 9 years I have never seen anyone go the "correct" way, because it's stupid. Same with the connection to downtown - there's a flight of stairs because spending any money on cycling is just not done.

[Chadillaccc]

Map of the award-winning RiverWalk project, existing and future. Stage two likely begins this year.

[Chadillaccc]

A sample of what one of Calgary's new cycle lanes look like. They're very well done in my opinion. Really glad to hear that the full downtown network has been approved by the city.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by lake of the nations

Promenade du Lac-des-Nations by destinationsherbrooke, on Flickr



Promenade du Lac-des-Nations by destinationsherbrooke, on Flickr

Since spring's been here I've been using the trail on the north side of the Magog river, then the south branch of the round-the-lake path (those two pics) to commute from my place (near the Carrefour) to downtown. I generally ride it all the way to Burlington Street then I go up the hill (Lionel-Groulx blvd), so 90% of the distance is done on actual bike lanes. For a car-friendly city like Sherbrooke, that's something

When it's beautiful out, especially on week evenings and weekends, the damn 'zone zen' really annoys me, though. It's like an obstacle course...

[LeftCoaster]

Originally Posted by Chadillaccc

A sample of what one of Calgary's new cycle lanes look like. They're very well done in my opinion. Really glad to hear that the full downtown network has been approved by the city.

The first picture is Vancouver, if the rain hadn't given it away the West Van blue bus sure should have!

Here's a good pic of the new bike lanes in Calgary from the city's website:


http://www.calgary.ca/Transportation...k-network.aspx

[Chadillaccc]

Oh shit! I got it from CTV Calgary though (or some Calgary news thing). Damn liars! Well, they look the same. Thanks for the extra pic!

[Chadillaccc]

A rendering of one of the nexuses of Calgary's core bike lane network, at 8th Avenue and 7th Street SW. The new lanes will be coming online next year.



http://www.calgaryherald.com/busines...453/story.html

[Chadillaccc]

Hamilton Bike Share, very cool.

Originally Posted by SteelTown

Hamilton's Bike Share is being rolled out in Hamilton this summer


Hamilton Bike Share
https://twitter.com/SoBiHamilton/sta...134337/photo/1


Andrew Pettit
https://twitter.com/4Pettit/status/4...178690/photo/1