Friday, March 04, 2005

Cyclists losing hope for parking ban

The Globe had this article today. Looks like the city is still in denial.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I live in the East end of toronto and believe me Emergancy responce teams have a HUGE PROBLEM getting into the area due to the parking on Queen Street and even on Kingston road it is a huge mess around here and a serious danger but the City makes a big wad of cash from parking tickets so they won't do a thing about it.Steeker

Tanya said...

I do kinda like the parking on these streets, it creates a nice partial bike lane. (but without the cars that don't know how to merge problems of actual bike lanes) Problem is of course in some places the lane is wide enough not to get doored by riding in it, and some places its not.

Tino said...

Tanya,

True. Car parking slow cars down somewhat and creates the dooring problem tremendously. the only way to proect cyclists though is by remoing the parking and installing proper bike lanes appropiate for the location.

Tanya said...

Problem is the city does not have the political will to remove parking, and will thus try to make some kind of compromise solution which ends up with bike lanes completely in the door zone (I'm thinking Davenport here) Bike lanes still confuse drivers though, and they do dumb things like try to turn right without entering (or even looking for someone travelling in) the bike lane. With the "parking" bike lane, cars are not usually parked right at the intersection, and cars wanting to turn right are much better behaved.

And yes I do like anything that naturally slows down the speed of traffic, its easiest for bikes and cars to happily coexist when they speed difference is minimal.