Graydon Patterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> I agree there is much confusion on what actually constitutes a bicycle lane.
> I'm not aware of a specific formal definition, although I think one probably
> exists.
Well - our favourite document, the HTA, doesn't mention bicycle lanes at
all. There is the power to designate lanes "for slowly moving traffic,
traffic moving in a particular direction or classes or types of vehicles"
{154.(1)(c)}, which requires designation(!) and signs.
Although it doesn't specifically state so, I believe that this refers to the
white/black diamond signs (for classes of vehicles), and the white/black
arrows for designating lanes for particular directions.
This leaves us with three different classes of bicycle "lanes":
1. Lanes designated in the manner above (very rare in Ottawa);
2. Typical Ottawa bicycle lanes that would seem to exist in a legal
vacuum; and
3. Paved shoulders.
> To me, a bicycle lane must be designed as a viable traffic lane for
> use specifically by bicycles. Another words, put all the design specs that
> would normally go into a curb lane, and shrink it to 1.5 to 2 metres.
>
When you say "for use specifically by bicycles", do you mean that other
vehicles would be excluded? - ie Class 1 as described above. If so, I
think, as noted before, that we have very few of these.
> I don't consider the lanes on Prince of Wales (north of Baseline),
> Fallowfield, of Hunt Club west of the 416 to be bicycle lanes. They are wide
> road shoulders, with some bicycle logos every so often.
>
Interesting. I would have considered at least some of these, or some
stretches of them, to be bicycle lanes of the Class 2 variety. Although it
is true that some of them were paved shoulders before they gained their
bicycle logos.
--
Peter James
Ottawa, Ontario
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