tybuilding on the Skyscraper Pages posted pics that prove Vancouver isn’t the only place trying out new forms of separation:
Surrey’s first separated on street bike lanes completed. 192 Street at 73 Avenue.
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When did “separated” start including painted lanes?
Oh, and congrats to Surrey 🙂
When there are parked cars between the bike lane and the roadway, it’s essentially separated.
I am a bit concerned about the lowered standard for separation. This type of lane falls short of a true separated lane in several ways, including the amount of comfort they provide to ‟interested but concerned‟ riders. Let’s call this what it is: a painted bike lane.
We don’t build BRT and call it LRT.
Huge congrats to Surrey. Rolled out everywhere, that really could be transformative for the pancake sprawling city.
They are temporary lanes and will turn into regular bike lanes in the future when 4 lanes of roadway are needed, but there will be a greenway path on one side of the road as well.
Interesting… what is a regular bike lane? Painted? Physically separated?
I find this method of separation hazardous in some instances. Are vehicle passengers as likely to check their mirror before flinging their doors open? And what about pedestrians crossing the bike lane? Not that these are huge issues, but people aren’t used to this arrangement and it could precipitate accidents.
Those are the same configuration as the lanes recently and uncontroversiallty re-installed on Richards Street in downtown Vancouver when the street was repaved.
Nicely done.
More bizarre are the new bike lanes the City of Vanouver has painted on 49th Ave. whichare on the traffic side of the parked cars with painted buffers on either side of the bike lane.
See pic at the same SkyscraperPage.com link above.