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Hintonburg contraflow: a preview of Centretown East-West cycle lane?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other day I came across this odd length of one-way street in Hintonburg.\u00a0 It’s a short block joining Armstrong to Wellington Street West but it has a “contraflow” lane for bicycles, meaning that while cars on this block drive north, cyclists ride south<\/a>. The cycle lane features two small cement islands at the top and bottom of the street with a ladder pattern of yellow paint running between them.<\/p>\n

While such a feature was new to me, Kathryn Hunt of the Incidental Cyclist<\/a> blog pointed out that a similar contraflow lane has operated in Old Ottawa South for several years, beginning at the corner of Bank and Cameron<\/a> and running west toward Carleton U.<\/p>\n

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Whether running against the flow of car traffic, or parallel to it, the islands at either end of such a construction appear to be an attempt at “grade separation”; the physical separation of cycle lanes from encroachment\/interference by auto traffic.<\/p>\n

They are not a continuous barrier though, and that’s what would make for true grade separation according to Michael Powell, Chair of the City ‘s Roads and Cycling Advisory Committee, who sent along some images from a consultation the City held earlier this year.\u00a0 The laddered paint of the Hintonburg example might be a good indication of what the pilot project of the Centertown East-West Bike Lane will look like if it is placed on a residential street<\/a> instead of a commercial thoroughfare<\/a> like Somerset or Gladstone. Such paint makes for a visual demarcation but it is not a physical barrier; it remains to be seen just how much it will increase the all-important “perception” of safety as felt by cyclists actually using the lanes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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