Car on Waverley path

[Gord McGonigal]

Today I was quite astonished to see a car travelling south on the
multi-use path on Waverley near Tim Horton's, just north of Hurst Way.
The driver carried on down the path until entering the intersection at
Hurst and Waverley, heading west.

[Jeremy Hull]

Amazing!

I'm just back from Boulder, Colorado where there are lots of bike paths and
sharrows and where it's legal and expected that cyclists will ride on the
sidewalks. That makes for some unexpected cyclists whizzing across
intersections in the pedestrian crosswalks. The city tries to alert drivers
to this by providing raised pedestrian/bicycle crossings in places such
asright turn lanes, with signs indicating the crossing. The sharrows are
generally placed well out into the street and are used in part to direct
cyclists around parked cars.

Boulder is a unique place. Lots of bike paths and pedestrian/bicycle bridges
or tunnels across freeways or major roads. In the news while I was there
was a big debate they are having with the local power company about how to
phase out dependency on fossil fuels. On the front page of the local paper
the day before I left the main articles were that bicycle collisions were
down this year and that a bicycle racing event would be coming to Boulder.

Jeremy

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