Some critics have taken to social media<\/a> to share their opinions, using such euphemisms as useless, ugly and a waste of money to describe the new bike lane.<\/p>\nBut other area residents, like Robert Malcolm, who is also president of the school council at Sunnyside Elementary, believe the bike lane has made the road a lot safer for cyclists by narrowing the road so people drive more appropriately.<\/p>\n
\u201cMemorial on occasion has some construction on it, and on these certain occasions, which happen now and then, people tend to cut through the neighbourhood and you\u2019ve got an elementary school and a bunch of houses, and you know people with mobility needs, so that\u2019s really been an issue,\u201d said Malcolm.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tSunnyside resident Robert Malcolm believes the bike lanes have made the roads a lot safer for cyclists and forced motorists to \u2018drive more appropriately.\u2019.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n
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Critics also point out that the bike lane was unusable for long periods during the winter because it was covered in snow, forcing cyclists back out onto the road.<\/p>\n
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Criticism Christie Page of the Hillhurst Sunnyside Mobility Committee described the obstacle as \u201cgrowing pains.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t really open until January, which is a terrible time for the city to open a bike lane, and the snow crews hadn\u2019t figured out how to remove the snow and there was some real issues with parking signage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have reduced a little bit of parking just on 7th Avenue and having the parking signage not be correct right off the bat made people angry, like they were getting ticketed where the city had promised them parking, and it has been fixed, but people are still upset about that,\u201d said Page.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost every house where the bike lane went has an alley. Where they don\u2019t have an alley, there was a lot of thought put in by both the community and the city to make sure that they would have a parking spot in front of their house, and the recycle bin also had to get past it, so there are gaps where you can push a recycle bin through,\u201d added Page.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo people either have access through the rear of their property or they have access at the front of their property, which is really just a few houses here on 7th Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ward 7 Coun. Mike Atkinson believes the arrival of \u201ctrue cycling weather\u201d will result in many more people using the bike lane.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was quite a wide road before, so it is like a main throughfare for Sunnyside, right? It connects across the CTrain tracks and into Sunnyside. It\u2019s kind of the spine down the middle. It abuts the school. So it\u2019s kind of the right network piece right in the middle of community,\u201d said Atkinson.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was originally a trolley road. If you go back in the history of it, it\u2019s where we had a trolley on that road. So it\u2019s quite a wide road originally. So these cycle pieces and some of the curb bump outs to allow it \u2014 narrowing of the pedestrian infrastructure \u2014 have just made it an overall safer space for folks in the Sunnyside area,\u201d Atkinson added.<\/p>\n
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