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Presentation by Kitchener Easy Riders Bicycle Club

Region of Waterloo Public Works Committee Meeting Feb 11 2014. Presentation by Kitchener Easy Riders Bicycle Club. Kitchener Easy Riders Bicycle Club. Our game is safety 50+ Recreational road-riding club 200 members, throughout the Region Waiting list for membership

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Presentation by Kitchener Easy Riders Bicycle Club

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  1. Region of Waterloo Public Works Committee Meeting Feb 11 2014 Presentation by Kitchener Easy Riders Bicycle Club

  2. Kitchener Easy RidersBicycle Club Our game is safety 50+ Recreational road-riding club 200 members, throughout the Region Waiting list for membership We commute, shop, etc. by bike

  3. Reaction to the Draft Plan • We applaud having an active transport plan • Specifically.. • It integrates all active transport modes • It refers to best practices from around the world • The cities and townships were involved in the process • The Fix It list • Performance monitoring

  4. We limit ourselves one topic • We are obliged to ignore: • Wimpy ridership projections • Inadequate funding • Pinch points at freeways, rail lines • Failure to address political fragmentation • No integration of city trails & regional routes

  5. Our point is: 1.25m lanes are: Scary Outdated UNSAFE

  6. Lane width Minimum 1.5m!

  7. The 1.25m lane is Scary, deters usage EASY RIDERS ARE UNIVERSALLY SCARED OF NARROW BIKE LANES AMTP: People don’t bike, fear cars 71% of cycle-motor collisions fault of cyclists, mostly through riding out of sidewalks etc. AMTP: Where there are bike lanes, more cyclists are on road, not sidewalk

  8. The 1.25m lane is outdated

  9. MOST JURSIDICTIONS USE 1.5m! Source: http://www.rnbc.info/Press%20Room/Bicycle%20Lane%20Widths%20MMM%20Report/Appendix%20A_Lane%20Width%20Guides%20for%20various%20Municipalities.pdf

  10. Minimum-Width of Lanes # Jurisdictions Min On Road Cycle Lane (m) Data: Regional Niagara Bicycling Committee http://www.rnbc.info/Press%20Room/Bicycle%20Lane%20Widths%20MMM%20Report/Appendix%20A_Lane%20Width%20Guides%20for%20various%20Municipalities.pdf

  11. The 1.25m lane is unsafe

  12. 1.25m Lane UnsafeINFORMATION FITS STANDARD, NOT REALITY! e.g. Hamilton Waterloo 1.0m 1.2m

  13. 1.25m Lane REALLY Unsafe! REALLY1m VAN at Lane edge Space really occupied 1.2 M

  14. And with a drain or pothole?

  15. And with a drain or pothole? Relying on a gutter here doesn’t help at all! (p 43-44)

  16. The 1.25m minimum lane: Scary Outdated Unsafe

  17. Excess deaths and injuries with 1.25m min. ?

  18. The implications of unsafe 1.25m lanes for the Region:

  19. Possible legal fallout! Boston fatal Laird “dooring” with inadequate bike-lane (did not allow for car doors) It met the engineering standard but was still challenged.

  20. “Of interest to people in the world of bureaucracy is that the Cambridge bike lane met the guidelines of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) with five inches to spare. The lesson there is that the AASHTO guidelines need some work with a red pen. Nowhere else in traffic engineering would someone dream of posting a traffic control device that road users would need to disobey to save their lives. When we stop crying, let’s laugh this one off the table.” John Schubert, bicycling author and expert witness.

  21. Committee members and staff, please come biking with us on narrow lanes!

  22. Final comment ER has appeared 3 times re: lane widths No response Only 4 days to review plan, like fall 2013 In a draft please indicate what was changed Frustrated!

  23. Easy Riders Bicycle Advocacy Committee thanks you and your staff for your efforts on the plan!

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