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Haultain bikeway: the Estevan section
After a short mistaken detour yesterday to the section further west, today we head east and let’s look at its easternmost section (actually Estevan Avenue). This section needs to have a few pieces...
View ArticleCyclist injured on Haultain in Oak Bay
Biking to work on Friday morning I saw a cop car with a non-cop bike in the trunk and an officer with an accident kit talking with somebody. I immediately knew that something had happened, but wasn’t...
View ArticleOak Bay’s Active Transportation Advisory Committee is blogging
Kind of late to this party, but they don’t seem to have much Google-juice (they are page 7 on my search for “Oak Bay Active Transportation”), so here it is: Oak Bay Active Transportation at Blogspot....
View ArticleNine years ago: TravelChoices recommends crossing barrier on Foul Bay at...
Almost nine years ago, the CRD’s TravelChoices was released. Amongst the many documents released was Working Paper #3, the Bicycle Strategy. Part of that strategy is this little gem: Key crossings on...
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Haultain bikeway: from Richmond to Cedar Hill Rd
Today we deal with the section fully within the City of Victoria. There are two distinct pieces to this section. The first runs from Richmond to Shelbourne and is typified by narrow roadway with...
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Beyond the Haultain bikeway: Cedar Hill Rd through to Vancouver St.
Beyond the Haultain bikeway is the rest of my route to work, along the City’s of Victoria’s bikeways through to Vancouver St. @Bay St. Like the other busy road without an barrier, Foul Bay Rd., Bay St....
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CRD gets federal gas tax money for PCMP implementation
Finally announced, the CRD recently received $780,950 from the Government of Canada’s Gas Tax Fund transfer to implement various part of the Capital Regional District’s (CRD) recently completed...
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Putting BikeBC funding in context
Bike infrastructure in the CRD is built in fits and starts, much of it done with grants from other levels of government. Usually these grants are announced with little background information about the...
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Safe, comfortable, convenient: analysis of the Pandora St Protected Bike Lane...
The era of modern, protected bike lanes is finally coming to Victoria, as the City of Victoria looks to close a gap along Pandora St from Cook St to the Johnson St Bridge. Staff have recommending a...
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Morning bike flow off the Johnson Street Bridge
As council debates the Pandora and Johnson protected bike lane project (options for which I analyzed already), I figured I would see where people go when they bike off the Johnson Street Bridge into...
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Thoughts on Portland’s Greenways report
Earlier this week the City of Portland put out a report on their neighbourhood greenways (historically called neighbourhood bikeways), which like Vancouver, formed the backbone of their biking network...
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Bike mode share vs Bike Score: Why is Victoria so weird?
SFU’s Meghan Winters recently completed a paper looking at Bike Score and bike mode share (SFU news article) across several US and Canadian cities. The findings were as you would expect: higher Bike...
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Further thoughts on Bike Score vs bike mode share
So yesterday I wondered why Victoria was so odd, given our bike mode share doesn’t match our Bike Score. Today I dig into another data point: the CRD’s Origin & Destination study (PDF) conducted in...
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The most ridiculous bike detour
Bike routes love to detour straight up giant hills. This is usually to avoid having to go along major roads. There is a fun one of the BC Parkway in Vancouver: But I think I found the prize for most...
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Saanich closes a gap on the Lochside Regional Trail
Saanich is working right now to close one of the worst gaps on the Lochside Regional Trail – the missing link from McKenzie Ave to Cedar Hill X Rd. Nearly everytime I have ridden through this...
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