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Steam Whistle lists repair stations at these addresses:
Coop Wine Spirits Beer; 1003-11th Street SW, Calgary AB
Home & Away Calgary Kitchen; 1331 17th Ave SW, Calgary, AB
Two Wheel View; #101, 1725 10th Ave SW, Calgary, ABAlforno at 222 7 St SW has free air. Don’t know about repair station.
There is also free air and a repair station at the Tourmaline Outdoor Fitness Park next to Angel’s Cafe in Edworthy Park.
Most bike shops will also have a repair station. Bowcycle for sure.The Dero Fixit at Tourmaline Fitness Park. This was installed by Calgary Parks Foundation. Apparently there is another one along 10th Avenue S.W somewhere but I don’t know where exactly.
Take a look at how many repair stations these folks have setup in Toronto:
https://bikechain.ca/services/fixit/
Here’s another Toronto group:
https://cyclesimcoe.ca/repair-stand/Wait. Do you mean here? There is no crosswalk here. I don’t think the drivers are necessarily wrong about being upset if people try to cross here (bike or not).
Though, frankly, if the underpass is closed, it looks like there should be a temporary one put up somehow. This is open now right? I’d leave feedback on 311 or @yyctransport either way.I’ve had nothing but good experiences with both the Lime scooters and the Bird scooters. The level of use I’ve seen compared to the bikes speaks to their accessibility. People seem far more comfortable stepping on the scooters than they do the bicycles. Perhaps they’re easier to unlock. Maybe it’s that they’re smaller in size. Probably it’s because standing still seems more doable to people who might not be comfortable balancing a bicycle.
My new commute route extends all of the river pathway, from silver springs to inglewood. I think today I saw more scooters than pedestrians during the 4pm-ish rush hour home. By far I have seen people using them respectably, if not a bit noobishly. The worst “experience” I’ve seen with them so far is seeing some disgruntled idiot who didn’t like them pick one up and toss it into the river. For some reason he seems to have thought he was disrespecting the scooter, instead of the river.
The next time you see a scooter tossed or knocked over in the park, stand it upright. Seems people are afraid to touch “what isn’t theirs.” In this case it’s OK.Remember that the way people are reacting to these are the same way that people react to bicycles in general.
The vast majority will be fine, but people will only see the negative.
For example, I saw the same group of kids on the Lime scooters heading along memorial towards Bowness, having a blast, taking up both lanes, swerving back and forth in fun. But they still moved over in line when I rang my bell. Why would I be upset about people having fun? That was a positive to me.On a particularly windy day, I had a scooter pass me heading home. Oof! Jealous.
But, that’s my opinion. Don’t hate the scooter, hate the 10% of idiots who shouldn’t be allowed outside. I don’t think it’s the product, but the decision making capabilities of certain people — and their decisions don’t stop at the scooters.where’d my post go :O
Thanks for bumping this. Forgot about it.
So the comment you got about roads just seems like miscommunication. There is certainly a lot of overlap and confusion on who presides over what when it comes to the bike infrastructure and maintenance. But I think what they meant was the roads team responsible for clearing does not make the decisions on where they clear.
Calgary has transportation engineers working on transportation planning and livable streets. When I get in contact with 311 about bicycle infrastructure my notes are almost always redirected to Kaely Dekker.
This might be a good starting point for you.
Most of these were addressed in some fashion (albeit some only recently, so the turn around is upwards of 2+ years depending).
Here is a sample response from one of those emails:Thank you for taking the time to contact The City of Calgary regarding bicycle connections in Silver Springs. Information from citizens such as yourself is valuable and we will review the locations and improvements you identified. Thank you for providing such detailed information with supporting maps and context about how cyclists are travelling through this area. Making cycling a safe and convenient transportation option supports access to important community resources and amenities, often smaller scale improvements can make a big difference for people travelling by bicycle.
If you have any further suggestions related to improvements that you feel would reduce barriers to active transportation such as walking or cycling, please feel free to submit them via 311.
Kind Regards,
I’m not that familiar with the area you are showing. But if I understand correctly, isn’t the road you’re describing not well cleared in winter, and mostly a side road? I thought using the 2nd str route was just as fast (even if it feels out of the way)?
I might be wrong. I’ve only gone through that area once or twice. Google recommendations are usually pretty good, so I’m going to use it as reference to draw a line on where I think you meant.I do agree about 10th. I wonder if it wouldn’t have been better off as a protected cycle track. It would be quite spooky going down that in the winter if it was not cleared. But I’d probably treat it like Home Road, where we take the lane on the downhill.
New commute today. First time back on Home Road in a while. Really nice touches in the area the past few months. I like the addition of the green bollards on the intersection of the TransCanada. Should stop cars from using it as a second lane. But I liked the addition of the concrete barriers along 52nd street the most. Coming up that incline at night always sketched me out because people would come barreling around that corner at 50kmh+ right into the bike lane. Saw it as I was halfway up and was super impressed, then when I actually got to them near the top three cars were turning in and they all slowed down a lot appropriately. What a great and long-time-coming change.
Not sure there’s a way to directly upload on this forum anymore. It just has the img tags.
The fastest way I think would be to upload it on google drive or imgur.com (top left ‘new post’) then copy the .jpg url into the img tag. When you click on the [img] option on the top of the post box here it should give you a place to put the images http:// link. If you upload it somewhere but can’t find the address just right click on the image and click copy image address.I’m not exactly sure about a bylaw, but this page would probably describe what is required. It also links to where you can request a bike rack (the 311 service request at the bottom). The last time I requested a rack for an area like this though they told me I needed to contact the owner of the strip mall. Worth a shot though to see what they say. I think if there’s no parking at all then they might be obligated to put in something? If they say this it might be a good idea to give them an idea of what to get, or to contact the city for their official ones, so they don’t get one of those super crappy unbolted racks.
and I really like the idea of sponsored brake pads. I wear through mine every year with the bluffs 🙂
Yes. I imagine a lot of this is due to volumes of tickets from pedestrians on the pathway who get passed at rates they felt uncomfortable with. Which means they’d just submit tickets of speeding cyclists regardless of the situation.
After commuting for 5+ years, I’ve seen a lot of people on the pathway system who seem like they are too jumpy to be sharing the space with bicycles. They’re not paying attention and either jump the wrong way, act frightened, or yell after people who have done nothing wrong. Not speaking from experience personally, I’ve seen enough that I can recognize them and give them wide births, but I have seen it happen to many other people who were not going over the speed limit.While I think enforcement of bicycles is equally as important as cars, and to some degrees pedestrians when all three are in mixed spaces [car/bike or bike/ped], I do think a lot of the hammering comes from unjust reactions.
I cannot sympathize with a pedestrian who thinks a bicycle passed them unsafely when they were going 22-25kmh and who both voiced their passage (or rang) and who also used the appropriate left lane to pass them. This is what I saw a lot. And I got the feeling many felt this way when, in idle conversation, my sister voiced she doesn’t like to go on the pathway system because the speeding cyclists are there.Perhaps what they really need to do is readjust high volume areas to have better separate cyclist/pedestrian spaces.
The few accidents I did see, all came from unsafe passing. The worst of which was the blind corner underpass on one of the crowchild area bridges where a fellow doing probably about 30kmh on a single speed passed a lady silently and ran into another bicycle in the other lane. He broke his wrist and stunned the other cyclist.The correlation here is probably that the majority who are passing unsafely, are also speeding. So everyone else gets punished for their poor behaviour. There is a good chance you may be profiled on a road bike in kit so careful out there 🙂
Bumping this back up over the prior months thread.
Actually I thought the speeding fine was more than $50 already. Something like $150 or $250. Maybe this means they’re considering increasing the pathway speed limit to 25/30kmh?The rain is apparently coming back tomorrow/friday. Still looks like it’ll be fairly nice though. My app is forecasting 6mm on Thursday and 5mm over all of friday. Get them fenders out.
Really, are we talking about the same location? The detour route is almost identical to the actual path at this location, except it wraps under the bridges underpass. It’s definitely an improvement over going back through all of Bowmont to go up Nose Hill like they’d have done in the past…
It was nice today. Air quality seemed much better. Poked around a bit in the NW after their revamps to the bowmont area and along stoney. Very impressed with their work there and the detours they have in place.
The waters by where people used to wade is back up to normal levels, and even has quite a strong current. No more calm water there, but saw some casual kayakers and rafters enjoying the alternative route from the river. Hopefully this helps the fish like they intended.
The detour setup around Stoney was also very well done. Instead of some weird round about they repaved an entirely new pathway right off from the detour point that just wraps around the other side of the bridge.
They even went so far as to separate it from traffic once it got to the road with large cement blocks. It’s better done than some cycle tracks!
I’d be looking to go to Bearspaw quite frequently to meet with a client if I pursued that route, so technically trespassing repeatedly sounds a bit risky 😀 Though I wonder if that even bothers me considering this route was penned to be completed in 2019…
Actually I was interested in another route too. How does a bicycle fare going up to Bearspaw? I’ve been waiting about 5 years for the city to build the Calgary to Cochrane pathway, but now they’ve delayed in order to build the communities over in that area first, so probably another 5 or more years… This pathway would go right by Bearspaw, but how about the current route? What’s the best way? When I pop it into Google Maps for directions it tells me to go along the back way down the TransCanada Highway then hopping over the river. That seems… Weird?
All considering this was actually pretty interesting.
Here in the city the UoC sometimes has wheel building courses. Doesn’t look like any are currently listed after the one earlier in May though: https://www.ucalgary.ca/ActiveLiving/registration/Program/wheelbuilding%20?path=Classroom_Repair-And-Tuning
