There is a traffic detour around the sewer control station being reconstructed on Booth Street immediately north of Albert. The four lanes are very narrow and the traffic persists in moving too fast. This week, safety no doubt improved immeasurably with the addition of a yellow sign in each direction showing a car beside a bike. Does this mean "no passing" or "share the lane"? In either case, the temp lanes are so narrow no one can pass a cyclist in the same lane.
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If the city were serious about cycling, they would re-open re-route cycling onto the path that runs parallel to albert between the condos and Preston on the south side of the little spillway canal. That way, cyclists wishing to go across the bridge, or to the War Museum, or river, could avoid that mess.
ReplyDeleteI already take the path that goes past the Mill restaurant most of the time when I commute to work, to avoid both that, and the atrocious state of Albert st.
Do you know what they are planning on building there?
ReplyDeleteA big hole. Into that they will build a large concrete box. Into that a buncha sewer pipe control valves and computers. Then a lid on the box, cover it up, and put the road back. Will take about a year to do it and cost many millions.
ReplyDeleteand then next year when they experience a minor glitch they will dig it up again to re-boot the computer.
ReplyDeleteDon't they usually build human-access ports into those things so that the street doesn't have to be dug up again?
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