They aren't my favourite design (mountable curb next to 60kph traffic lanes), nor are they open yet, but they are there! I also suspect on a road section this wide and hard to cross, there will be a lot of people biking the wrong way.

this is actually the CP rail bridge, which ironically, the MUP hasn't been constructed for yet.

ION had to get special permission, the province does not allow them as standard (only the single transit priority light atop a regular signal head).

MTO largely manages highway projects and seem woefully equipped to do much else.

ION had to get special permission and then the province chose not to add those signals to the HTA and approved OTM guides.

I would largely agree. This line has a lot of potential that is sitting there unused because it's operated at glacial speeds and even the bare minimum TSP it has doesn't seem to be functional (or effective) given the bunching occurring. That first turn out of Humber is mind-blowing.

Political discourse also assumes anyone with a whiff of Socialism is one step away from implementing a command economy and outlawing anything that isn't state run, despite neither of those things being integral to socialism.

Did you read the comments from council too, claiming it's seasonal infrastructure! These are on street bikelanes! How do they excuse just not plowing part of the road??

don't forget the rocks

I believe Nann said they should be awarding the first phase by the end of the year. Probably another year in detailed design after that before construction would start in earnest.

We also just completed radius reductions at that intersection and general pedestrian improvements along upper went. I'm not sure what vehicle movement was involved here, but any intersection with that many lanes and is never going to be vision zero safe.

Very heavy, but a crow or pry bar would be enough to spin it around.

Heck I bike my kids 750m. It's less about distance and more about time.

I had this too but recently had to take a GO bus to a client office and to make the schedule work I needed to bike to the bus. My poor baby on the front of a bus on multiple 400 series highways. Those racks hold very firm. Just remember to tell the driver you're getting your bike when you get off!

It's very important that designers don't just follow guidebooks - they need to try infrastructure out themselves and understand what the physical infrastructure feels like compared to a plan view in MicroStation.

I find it very interesting (frightening?) that a huge use case for LLMs right now is helping write documents and helping to read/interpret them. At what point are we never really interacting with the actual document anymore.

These chicanes slow pedestrians down and reduce fatalities, have you ever seen two full sized adults collide at 50kph??