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They haven’t said officially. A memo was sent out over council’s summer recess. Council blames admin, admin blames council for sending the message on parking and everyone blames the UCP. I also have to feel that cost plays a factor. Delay and paying for parking leads to cuts elsewhere.

It’s frustrating cause he acts supportive so you get your hopes up. During the budget town halls he was telling me we just needed to get everyone together on 95 ave to talk about priorities… then it gets unceremoniously killed during summer break

The cancelled Grovenor and small SUP in Glenora just highlights the failures of this project. Years of momentum were thrown away without any meaningful safety improvements for an entire quadrant of the city.

107 ave seems to be the project the city is holding up as a win. I have serious doubts that council/admin has the guts to make this safe. Intersections including at the roundabout will have to be seriously improved. Level crossings added and restricted turns.

The south portion of 163 street is a welcome addition but underwhelming especially as you get closer to 87 ave and the LRT where it converts to a bikeway. The north portion is a disaster which randomly ends leaving a gap between stony plain road and 100 ave.

The short Elmwood section hasn’t started. This is a good connection since the area has a number of schools and will eventually be connected to the LRT.

Callingwood got no meaningful step up in safety vs just riding on the sidewalk. The crossing at the library/arena is even painted. This area has potential to be a cycling hot spot with so many amenities but it’s surrounded by unpleasant fast roads.

95 ave represented a core east/west route. (Note that blue routes do not have infrastructure) Without it we are left with only 100ave which ends at Crestwood. This also leaves a streetcar stop without any bike connection. Zero foresight.

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I’ll be interested in seeing how the city responds. Improving the network by focusing on intersections would likely boost ridership more than building a SUP along 111 Ave. The fundamental issue is that driver convenience is still the primary concern.

Tinfoil hat theory: this is a play to grow support for separatism.

Grifters constantly pushing the narrative that all traffic issues are the result of cyclists sure doesn’t help.

That intersection was supposed to get rebuilt for transit priority measures this summer but the project was delayed.

They can just blame renewables and environmental regulations anyway.

It’s small potatoes but I bought elks tickets and when you click on the tickets tab you get a pop up gambling advertisement. I WANT to give you money why are you making it annoying

The target demo is retired people who post about suspicious people on Nextdoor

I guess we just have different perspectives on how much inconvenience is worth people having housing. Personally I don’t think taking a slightly different commute route is worth blocking more people from living where they want to.

But that same way you could just take the SUP down the hill and cross at 94 ave. To be honest this just seems like fishing for a niche problem to oppose housing

What is the significance to active mobility? It doesn’t seem like that alley is connected to active infrastructure? The shared street is a few houses down on 98 st.

It’s kind of scary to think people like this, with such limited knowledge about traffic laws, are driving on our streets.