Bike lanes not big part of KV transportation plan
Bill Bishop, mayor of Rothesay, indicated today that bike lanes might be integrated into new streets, but he and the mayor of neighbouring Quispamsis don’t see the towns adding bicycle lanes to the streets already leading to Saint John, the major employment centre for the area.
Here’s the TJ article link: http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/771975
I’ve biked to and from the KV area a lot over the last couple of years and could see the benefit from bike lanes. A cheaper and more immediate solution would be to employ street sweepers earlier in the year – this spring was brutal for debris on the side of the road (I got a flat one day from a nail and have been forced for the shoulder by mounds of sand on several occasions).
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This is par for the course with Bill Bishop. In the last two months he has come out against increased density, a new town centre, and now bike lanes, but is in favour of a widened highway and intensly proud of the development of Rothesay (i.e., suburban sprawl at its best!). Murray Driscoll doesn't have a much better record either...
I know they live in a "its still 1952" bubble but geez, how much would it cost to ship them both to Bogota for a month so they can see that people use bikes as transportation, not just recreation. Has anyone heard of Sharrows either? How about just widening the shoulder and putting down some sharrows? We could tell them its for golf carts....
I hadn't heard of sharrows before. Google Image search solved that:
http://images.google.ca/images?sourceid=navclient&rlz=1T4GGIH_enCA248CA249&q=Sharrows&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
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