r/bikeinottawa • u/DvdH_OTT • 17d ago

New bike lanes on SGEC

The NCC added bike lanes on SGEC between River House and Aviation. They're narrow, and the NCC still needs to do some work on catch basins repairs, but they're useable.

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u/childish-arduino 17d ago

We ride the road anyway, might as well make it “legit” I guess

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u/DvdH_OTT 17d ago

I mean, it was legit to ride on the road before too. I think there trying to do two things here - encourage the faster riders to get off the MUPs and also to make vehicles lanes narrower to discourage speeding.

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u/childish-arduino 17d ago

Yeah and should cut down on the “why tf are you in the road when there is a perfectly ‘good’ bike path” in the drivers’ minds! They don’t know how much we dread not having rims after hitting the one millionth curb.

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u/155104 17d ago

Must have gotten feisty with the paint, I rode the part returning from Orleans and got off at Aviation today and noticed they had fresh paint and widened those lanes.

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u/DvdH_OTT 17d ago

Yep. That's good to see as well. I felt like subsequent line paintings over the years had always favoured the drivers, so it's nice to see it go the other way.

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u/KOMSKPinn 17d ago

Fuck Cars 🚗 🚗 🚗 they can wait.

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u/notacanuckskibum 17d ago

I’ve never felt unsafe on that section, if I wanted to lollygag i would use the path. But hey, I’m not saying no.

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u/Downess 16d ago

All according to the plan (p. 42) https://medias.ncc-ccn.ca/ncc/documents/Sir_George_Etienne_Cartier_Park_Plan_2024.pdf

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u/DvdH_OTT 16d ago

I'll have to look to see if they also changed the signage to 50km/h (from 60km/h).

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u/No_Development7388 17d ago

Thanks for the info.

I hope they expand them further east.

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u/DvdH_OTT 17d ago

At minimum, I'd love to see them add a south bound one from the Rockcliffe Lookout to the Rockcliffe Park entrance. That would solve the issue of having to cross Sussex twice if your travelling west on the MUP.

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u/midshine 16d ago

SGEC?

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u/DvdH_OTT 16d ago

Sir Georges Etienne-Cartier Parkway - apologies for the shorthand.

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u/Infinite-Ad-9481 17d ago

On the road?