I saw these installed on the Arbutus Greenway today. This doesn't look in any form wheelchair, stroller, one wheel, skate board or bike friendly to me at all.
Is there any practical reason to build those barriers to justify making life harder for above mentioned groups?
More speed bumps on a bike path/pedestrian path than on roads? Whoever did this absolutely hates non-motorized transportation.
I'd remove them myself if I lived there.
OP, get in touch with your Active Transportation Advisory Committee and see if they are even aware of this. I'm sure they wouldn't have agreed to it.
Yea I get wanting some users to slow down, but this must be annoying or impossible for wheelchair users and people with strollers. Bad implementation regardless
Thank you!
I've sent them an email to inquire about the purpose of these speedbumps and why there are so many of them.
This really seems to be ridiculous.
I'm sure they'll come back with "to slow down people on e-bikes and e-scooters", but those things are so anti-everyone else that they really shouldn't be there. EDIT: The speed bumps, not e-bikes and e-scooters!
If you don't get answers or the answer is silly, try to get in contact with the Accessibility Advisory Committee.
Done! I've contacted them as well. At least via an online form that I had been linked to.
Since I use that path , I agree with the speed bumps ppl rip it hard on that and it does make it hairy for walkers, etc
I’ve never seen wheelchairs there before. There is a 3% incline there. So I wouldn’t expect many to use it anyways because of that
That'll get expensive.
Apparently bikes take precedence over pedestrian safety.
Who knew.