Edmonton is a bike-friendly city. The City is constructing new on-street bike routes help people choose cycling as a safe, healthy and efficient way to get around the city.
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Calgary city council eyes pedestrian, bicycle friendly lane in Inglewood dubbed a Woonerf
The city wants to create a haven for pedestrians and cyclists in Inglewood, an area that could be off limits to cars.
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Case for 10 St. bike lanes just isn’t there, but they’re here to stay despite numbers
Brutally planned, barely used, and here to stay.
The latter is no surprise.
One year and eight months after residents of northwest Calgary woke up to find 10 St. N.W. transformed from a four-lane traffic artery into a two-lane experiment in bicycle commuting, the city has declared the controversial project a roaring success.
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Edmonton drivers concerned over 95th Avenue bike lane
EDMONTON – Some west end drivers are concerned their commutes will lengthen when the city rolls out its bike plans on 95th Avenue this summer.
The city plans to paint 1.7-metre wide lanes on both sides of the road between 189th Street and 142nd Street. The plan would maintain the same number of driving lanes throughout most of the route by narrowing the lanes slightly and eliminating about 14 blocks of on-street parking.
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Bike lanes on 40th Ave to go
More changes are ahead for Red Deer’s controversial bike lane pilot.
On Monday, Red Deer city council approved on-street adjustments to the pilot lane network that includes removing bike lanes, re-configuring streets and marking bike routes.
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112th Avenue recommended to stay at four lanes
City planners have recommended that 112th Avenue remain at its current configuration of four lanes of traffic, instead of the three that are under consideration.
The city plans to rebuild 112th Avenue between 50th and 68th Streets next year.
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Parents, schools upset about bike lanes for 132nd Avenue
EDMONTON – Bike lanes to be built this summer on both sides of a nine-block stretch along 132nd Avenue will be a danger to students, bikers, parents and other commuters, say some within the community.
“I’m appalled,” said David Andrews, principal of St. Cecilia Junior High School at 8830 132nd Ave.
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Ray Gibbon Drive counts make case for expansion
Traffic counts on Ray Gibbon Drive could push the City of St. Albert to pressure the Alberta government into expanding the roadway sooner than expected, according to St. Albert’s mayor.
City councillors were slotted a report from City staff in late November showing that the number of cars per day on the southern portion of the road has hit more than 14,000 this year, prompting Nolan Crouse to suggest that it might be time for the province to step in and expand the road beyond its current two lanes, even before the third phase to Villeneuve Road is finished.
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Design principles OK’d, lanes voted down
While St. Albert city council gave the green light to a number of design principles brought forward jointly by City of St. Albert staff and representatives of the land development industry, they put the brakes on others that could change the way St. Albert is constructed in the future.
The design principles are part of a larger review of city-wide engineering standards that City staff is currently undertaking. Altogether, there were 12 principles presented to council, and nine of them were passed on Monday.
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Lakeview residents want ‘confusing’ bike lanes removed
CALGARY— The same residents who once advocated for cycling infrastructure along Crowchild Trail S.W. are now calling for the city to remove a system of “ugly” and “confusing” bike lanes.
Both the Lakeview Community Association and the North Glenmore Park Community Association are asking city hall to immediately restore a section of Crowchild that was recently converted to bike lanes. The 500-metre stretch of roadway, between 66th Avenue S.W.and the entrance to North Glenmore Park, had four driving lanes until two of those were turned into cycling lanes this summer.
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