Residents and cyclists alike will start to see work being executed on Victoria Avenue. The town is making a protected bike lane.
“What you’re going to see is a bike lane here,” Metropolis councillor Renaldo Agostino demonstrated to a CTV digicam pointing to an space close to the curb.
“Then you’re going to see the parking meter here. There’s going to be parking blocks and then parked cars and then traffic as well.”
The parking meters and parking blocks can be alongside the street, defending the bike lane from flowing visitors.
Cyclists have expressed their ideas on the pilot venture.
“That sounds like it could make things safer,” mentioned bike owner Jeremy Proulx.
“I don’t bike a whole lot, but I’ve almost been doored several times and avoiding that kind of thing can be pretty hairy at times so that sounds like a good play, at least on the surface.”
Agostino mentioned the venture will create a secure path to the core for cyclists who work, go to highschool or dwell within the space.
“It’s been demonstrably proven that when people have, access to safe cycling infrastructure, that they spend more money in those communities,” Stephen Hargreaves instructed Ontario Chronicle. The director of the Sandwich BIA and biking advocate feels cyclists are inspired after they really feel secure.
“When infrastructure exists, people use it. When it doesn’t, people decide, maybe I’ll avoid that area, or maybe I’ll go spend my money somewhere else.”
Work is predicted to start out shortly and be executed by yr’s finish. The bike lane will begin at Chatham Road and go to Wyandotte Road East, the place it’s going to connect with a not too long ago added lane.
“We’ll give it a go and if all is deemed good then I can’t see why it can’t happen everywhere else,” mentioned Agostino who wish to see the pilot administered throughout the town.
Some residents in Ouellette Towers really feel a not too long ago put in bike lane on Pelissier Road may benefit from the identical arrange because the pilot.
“When I have to make a right-hand turn into here, I have to make sure there’s no cars coming down the other lane, the bike lane, because they do drive down the bike lane,” mentioned tenant Glen Gaines.
Some reportedly journey the total size of the bike lane from Elliott Road to Wyandotte Road with out even realizing they is likely to be within the bike lane.
“With all these changes, there’s got to be a component of education as well,” Agostino mentioned.
“I got another email this morning from somebody up on the corner where things don’t seem to be working quite the way we want them to, so we’re going to make adjustments along the way.”
With each industrial and residential progress anticipated on Pelissier Road, some really feel bikes lanes do not belong on that stretch of street.
“I think you’re going to see meters getting driven into and people just not going to know what’s going on,” mentioned Ray Blanchard, proprietor of the Bit Coin constructing. “I think it’s a bad idea on commercial streets.”
He pointed to alternatives he’s bringing to the world together with the redevelopment of the parking space within the 600 block of Pelissier as components that might carry excessive visitors to the road.
“If their solution is to move the meters out onto the street, that’s going to make it even harder for businesses to get deliveries because big trucks have to come in and they have to get deliveries,” he mentioned.
“It’s going to basically create an obstacle course.”
Agostino mentioned a report will go to council within the subsequent few months.
