For those of you who know André, he has now completed his cross-Canada cycle
tour and is debating whether to cycle back to Ottawa. What a guy!
Barbara Wilson, OBC member
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I used the bridge last week in the morning and encountered 3 other cyclists
using the Northbound lane to go South. Normally when I encounter a person
on a bike riding toward me, I inform them in no uncertain terms where they
belong. But in this case, since there were 2 of them together and the
The problem is historical - before renovations were complete, cyclists in both
directions were obliged to use the northbound sidewalk - I'm sure there are many that
are still unware that a southbound bike lane even exists !
If you are coming west along the north shore bikeway, you must pass
Sounds like they at least need to add a bit more paint and paint arrows
indicating that the lanes are one way only. Although, I do agree that one
wide lane is better than painting a bike lane.
To the uninitiated, it all looks good on paper. How about we try and get the
NCC road engineer folks to
Hi All,
It's not the road engineer that needs to ride the bike lane, it's the
(non-engineer) planner who thinks that the bike lane is a good
thing(tm), and _requires_ that any design has a bike lane in it. The
same thing happened at with the City when the centre town traffic
calming measures
Instead of sighing out loud on this forum, why not try calling or
e-mailing someone at the NCC? The bridge is new, the three lane idea is
new problems will be worked out I'm sure but unless they are made
aware of the problems they can't be worked out.
I doubt anybody from the NCC
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I think the bike lanes on the Champlain Bridge are great, even the
painted lines. The other day we were cycling south on the bridge (on
the correct side) and we saw a man cycling pulling a baby in a trailer.
And what would have happened to this man and baby if
