Spacing photographer Bouke Salverda was recently in Winnipeg and snapped this shot of a street sign indicating it’s a cycling-only street on Sundays and holidays.
Cycling-only streets in Winnipeg
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The sign says “Closed to thru vehicles”, so you can still drive on the street if you live on it
I spent my childhood in Winnipeg and just remembered this. I used to do a lot of biking in Winnipeg as a kid. Didn’t get downtown much, but their ‘suburban’ (10 minute bus ride from downtown) bike paths were great.
Yeah, there’s a few streets–longer drives in older, established neighbourhoods that wind along the city’s two major rivers–here that are closed to thru vehicles on Sundays. It’s a good idea, but since most of the vehicles on the streets are local anyways, there’s not a lot of difference in vehicular traffic between a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday one. It may be psychological though, as nice summer Sundays do bring out more people to these roads.
I was recently musing with a friend that I would love to see the DVP shut down one day a week to cars and made into a pedestrian/bikers haven. I had a surreal experience once walking across town on a ill-planned highway in Sao Paulo (I recall it’s name translated roughly to “Big snake”). Because of how close it had been built to residences, they were forced to close it every evening. It made for the most beautiful, peaceful walk above the city.
Anyhow, but the DVP: imagine how lovely it would be to ride along the river without all the traffic and pollution. It closes a couple of summer weekends a year anyway due to repairs….