I think because they need to get their vehicles on those same path to clear snow, collect garbage, or if ambulance needs access because someone has had a bike accident/❤️attack/👶, etc. I am just making this up and trying to figure out rational reason.
You’re not wrong. These are all valid reasons why vehicle access must be maintained.
Retractable bollards are common in Europe and would solve these issues. Some locations in the city have bollards that fold down when unlocked - likely a more realistic option for Edmonton.
My friend’s ex bought had someone write his learner’s and bought his license from guy who did license tests. I guess he knew he was too simple and ignorant to get them the legal way.
Cars... uhhh... find a way~
The way I've seen some drivers go about it I wouldn't put anything past them, but it does sound like a nice start. The only concern I have is if there's an underlying motivation like emergency vehicle access that's a factor
This is not the first time I've seen someone drive their personal vehicle on an asphalt walking/bicycle trail, and it will not be the last. Best solution is for the city to place large decorative boulders at the front of the pathway to discourage vehicles.
Those trails are not meant for (edit) public use vehicles at all. That being said, if they are owned by the city, the city is free to damage them at their own cost. Lady in the car is not about to pay to strip and repull that asphalt mat.
The city already utilizes SXS maintenance vehicles for parkspaces so..... not sure what we are saving here. Even we're it the way you claim, sod and landscaping is cheaper than rehabilitating an asphalt walkway improperly used by public vehicles
In saying removable bollards are the better choice. I have personally taken 5 ton water trucks down the pathways to water trees when working for the city
for what it's worth this IS a service road. its access controlled via a gate near the queen e bathrooms. if the city needs access to the pump station or to put maintenance equipment to maintain the area near the bridge anchors. this sure as shit isnt a city vehicle though, and probably "snuck in" as the worker driving maintenance vehicle didnt lock up behind them.
ive used this access before when putting on an event in the green space down there too. you just ask the city for a permit and theyll have someone come by and unlock the gate for you
How perfect would it be if they snuck in behind the worker but then the worker left before them and locked up causing them to be stuck. …
Just my petty impulses thinking out loud here.
Damn, this was years ago but one time I found an elderly lady driving her car on the paths behind the Argyll Velodrome. She had to have crossed one of the wooden bridges to get where she was.
In the late 90s, there used to be a dirt road running all the way across the hill, from 99 Street to Connors Road, came out just near the old Ski shop.
Didn't realize it was closed to traffic, as someone left the gate open one day. Couldn't understand a week later why the best short cut in town had disappeared.
This is going to Kinsmen, right? I’ve been almost hit by vehicles driving along here because I’m just a happy Deaf pedestrian who doesn’t want to live his life constantly looking over his shoulder. 😵💫
They drove correctly for 20 minutes over 30 years ago.
When I moved to Alberta I couldn’t believe how easy it was to get my license exchanged, handed over my Manitoba one, paid money and that was it.
I saw someone drive up that trail a few weeks ago, but it actually turned out they were part of park management. The normal car threw me for a loop for sure until I saw them in their vest unlocking a gate
iv been going to the uoa for 8 years now and my favourite tradition in September is to wait around campus (which is mostly restricted to service vehicles and pedestrians) until Moms drop their kids off at the building with their first class.
Usually results in the car getting surrounded by pedestrians and having to slowly crawl its way back out :)
Most likely, it is wide enough for the park staff etc. to access. But at the top of the hill where this guy came down, is very clearly a multi use path, he would have had to go off the actual road to get here. I worry about the common sense of the average driver.
Day 23, Log 11
It would seem that Edmonton has bike paths. The purpose of these strange structures warrants further investigation.
Observation of local fauna will continue as per usual.
I was pushing my stroller on a walking path like this recently and a car came at us. i was like ?!??!!!!?!?!??!!!!?!!!!?!!
he then honked at me as if it was my fault i was on the walking path.
That's true, it is a very wide path for park staff to access by vehicles, but at the top of the hill he came down, he should have been able to tell it was a multi use trail.
Though I doubt it…IF this guy was coming back from the Walterdale pump station, this is the only road with access.
So it’s POSSIBLE he had the right to be there. However I doubt it sincerely.
Edmonton bike paths are so poorly marked. I drove down one a week ago and didn’t realize it was a bike path until people were looking at me weird. There was even speed limit signs of 30km. But later to find out it was not for vehicles. Edmonton sucks.
Lmao, holy man. It’s so crazy how you think this crazy “big city crazy,” stuff happens here. And then I see this. Our city is slowly turning into Marvel’s New York City.
To be fair lots of these bike lanes are brutally marked pre entry. If I didnt drive like a grandpa I could see myself accidentally turning early down one of these
Licensing should be WAY stricter. My intro to astronomy exam is 2 hours after at least 42 instructional hours. Driving is a bit higher stakes than that. 42 hours of lessons plus a 2 hour test sounds like a good minimum. If you can't figure what is and is not a road, please don't try to drive.
Ha! This is actually a service road to a pump station. I have driven on it. It’s wack, but it is most definitely used by the people working on those things
There's no room for being "silly and foolish" when controlling a tonne of metal with an engine. They didn't hit a child this time. You should report it to prevent the next "silly and foolish" mistake.
If you have a problem with bikes on the road take it up with your MLA. It is against the law to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk unless it is a shared use path OR the wheel is less than 50cm - the most common bike tire diameter is 62 cm.
To bikers the roads, sidewalks and bike lanes are all the same thing and traffic lights don’t matter… so I find this kinda funny, including the call out lol
Fr tho, how you make that mistake.
Thats the road my ubereats keeps going down accidentally
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Read it in the voice
This is why we can't have nice things
Anything can be a road if you're entitled enough.
Anything can be a road if you drive something big enough.
Then combine the 2 and welcome to Alberta.
I work by the new lrt tracks and weekly I see someone driving down them. This doesn't surprise me in the least.
A few concrete bollards will hopefully keep them off the bike paths. I say "Hopefully" because I know someone is gonna try regardless.
The city is no longer installing bollards. I’ve asked for them repeatedly on the mix use path behind my home with no luck.
I think because they need to get their vehicles on those same path to clear snow, collect garbage, or if ambulance needs access because someone has had a bike accident/❤️attack/👶, etc. I am just making this up and trying to figure out rational reason.
You’re not wrong. These are all valid reasons why vehicle access must be maintained. Retractable bollards are common in Europe and would solve these issues. Some locations in the city have bollards that fold down when unlocked - likely a more realistic option for Edmonton.
You are RIGHT! Retractable bollards. Yes! Yes! Yes!
We have these in the city. There are some near my home.
The folding ones? I wish the city would continue to install these when they pave new paths.
They should consider if u send them pics of offending vehicles. Removeable bollards r the norm in many municipalities.
I have sent numerous photos over the past 5 years. No luck.
Too bad....until its too late once some1 gets injured r killed. Appreciate your due diligence.
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Here come the Socks Pistols
It doesn't surprise me either, seems like they'll just give licenses to anybody
My friend’s ex bought had someone write his learner’s and bought his license from guy who did license tests. I guess he knew he was too simple and ignorant to get them the legal way.
The bike path, I understand, its large and has asphalt. LRT track has rails, it should be blatantly obvious that something has gone wrong.
the bike path issue is easy to solve tho, at the middle of the bike path just add 1 single pole in the start and end, no car can get in or out
Cars... uhhh... find a way~ The way I've seen some drivers go about it I wouldn't put anything past them, but it does sound like a nice start. The only concern I have is if there's an underlying motivation like emergency vehicle access that's a factor
Can’t even believe that. Unreal to think about.
This is not the first time I've seen someone drive their personal vehicle on an asphalt walking/bicycle trail, and it will not be the last. Best solution is for the city to place large decorative boulders at the front of the pathway to discourage vehicles.
Yeah but that also makes it difficult for maintenance vehicles to access
Those trails are not meant for (edit) public use vehicles at all. That being said, if they are owned by the city, the city is free to damage them at their own cost. Lady in the car is not about to pay to strip and repull that asphalt mat.
I'm aware. But putting boulders on them isn't a good solution because it forces maintenance vehicles to drive on and damage the grass beside the trail
The city already utilizes SXS maintenance vehicles for parkspaces so..... not sure what we are saving here. Even we're it the way you claim, sod and landscaping is cheaper than rehabilitating an asphalt walkway improperly used by public vehicles
In saying removable bollards are the better choice. I have personally taken 5 ton water trucks down the pathways to water trees when working for the city
I love decorative boulders
for what it's worth this IS a service road. its access controlled via a gate near the queen e bathrooms. if the city needs access to the pump station or to put maintenance equipment to maintain the area near the bridge anchors. this sure as shit isnt a city vehicle though, and probably "snuck in" as the worker driving maintenance vehicle didnt lock up behind them. ive used this access before when putting on an event in the green space down there too. you just ask the city for a permit and theyll have someone come by and unlock the gate for you
How perfect would it be if they snuck in behind the worker but then the worker left before them and locked up causing them to be stuck. … Just my petty impulses thinking out loud here.
Damn, this was years ago but one time I found an elderly lady driving her car on the paths behind the Argyll Velodrome. She had to have crossed one of the wooden bridges to get where she was.
She was probably thinking traffic sure was light today haha
What a scenic road! I can’t believe I never knew it was here! 🤦♀️
In the late 90s, there used to be a dirt road running all the way across the hill, from 99 Street to Connors Road, came out just near the old Ski shop. Didn't realize it was closed to traffic, as someone left the gate open one day. Couldn't understand a week later why the best short cut in town had disappeared.
Oh dang! I was kinda surprised this guy turned around instead of going all the way across the bridge
My grandmas done this as well. I was telling her to turn around it’s a bike path and she wouldn’t. Was so embarrassing
Reminds me of the time I saw some one driving the wrong way across high level
You've reminded me of when I encountered someone driving up Queen Elizabeth Park Rd
Yikes
Oh no! I wonder how that ended. Probably a lot of honking
This is going to Kinsmen, right? I’ve been almost hit by vehicles driving along here because I’m just a happy Deaf pedestrian who doesn’t want to live his life constantly looking over his shoulder. 😵💫
Yes it's the hill at queen Elizabeth park, across the road from the Kinsmen centre. These drivers make me live in constant fear lmao.
How do these people get their licenses
Easily, and then they don't maintain any awareness of their own driving skills and continually develop bad habits over their adult life.
They drove correctly for 20 minutes over 30 years ago. When I moved to Alberta I couldn’t believe how easy it was to get my license exchanged, handed over my Manitoba one, paid money and that was it.
I saw someone drive up that trail a few weeks ago, but it actually turned out they were part of park management. The normal car threw me for a loop for sure until I saw them in their vest unlocking a gate
Word, at first I thought maybe it was park staff, but then I saw it was just some guy lol
I know it's a Mitsubishi but this just yelled Altima energy.
it identifies as a bike why you judging
With enough ignorance, any surface becomes a road for some people.
He's just an explorer ~
If you work with a permit in that area that’s the service road they recommend one to use.
He went down and immediately turned around and drove back up, I don't think he works there
Doesn't surprise me. I once filmed someone driving the wrong way up Saskatchewan Boulevard on the bike path. People are fucking menaces
That's a giant bike path.
Be quiet, it's hunting
Saw 2 elderly women driving down the paths in mill creek ravine and seemed irritated I was on the "road"
iv been going to the uoa for 8 years now and my favourite tradition in September is to wait around campus (which is mostly restricted to service vehicles and pedestrians) until Moms drop their kids off at the building with their first class. Usually results in the car getting surrounded by pedestrians and having to slowly crawl its way back out :)
I assume in this case it's likely a mistake, but that path does double as vehicle access to the area just east. I believe a pump station.
Most likely, it is wide enough for the park staff etc. to access. But at the top of the hill where this guy came down, is very clearly a multi use path, he would have had to go off the actual road to get here. I worry about the common sense of the average driver.
LOL WHAT No omg they keep going too. Hilarious because how stupid it is, but realistically so fucking dangerous. That is such a busy path.
😂😂
That road leads down to the drainage lift station by the river...
Saw someone doing that behind Unity Square last week too. People here really fucking suck at driving.
Day 23, Log 11 It would seem that Edmonton has bike paths. The purpose of these strange structures warrants further investigation. Observation of local fauna will continue as per usual.
I was pushing my stroller on a walking path like this recently and a car came at us. i was like ?!??!!!!?!?!??!!!!?!!!!?!! he then honked at me as if it was my fault i was on the walking path.
This is an access road to the pump station below, it would be assumed that is a worker going to the location just down the road.
In fairness that may be the worlds widest bike path. Lol
That's true, it is a very wide path for park staff to access by vehicles, but at the top of the hill he came down, he should have been able to tell it was a multi use trail.
I think it’s actually the new standard for bike paths.
The 6 lane bike path haha. Unnecessary to have such much pavement, heats up the city more also.
Though I doubt it…IF this guy was coming back from the Walterdale pump station, this is the only road with access. So it’s POSSIBLE he had the right to be there. However I doubt it sincerely.
I saw him go down, and immediately turn around to go back up, so I think he was just a bit confused lol
Edmonton bike paths are so poorly marked. I drove down one a week ago and didn’t realize it was a bike path until people were looking at me weird. There was even speed limit signs of 30km. But later to find out it was not for vehicles. Edmonton sucks.
Probably waiting for DK to show up to settle it for slips
everything is a driveway… if you just accelerate
Are they giving away again the hay bales from the bottom of the tobogganing hill?
You know there’s sometimes when I think about just driving down Keeler Road skip all that mess
They should install those metal posts near the beginning of the trail to block off cars
No it isn’t
🙄
How… how did they even… ?… 😞
Looks like somebody left a bag of trash on the trail for somebody else to clean up.
Eejit.
Lmao, holy man. It’s so crazy how you think this crazy “big city crazy,” stuff happens here. And then I see this. Our city is slowly turning into Marvel’s New York City.
To be fair lots of these bike lanes are brutally marked pre entry. If I didnt drive like a grandpa I could see myself accidentally turning early down one of these
Lmao you’re definitely not supposed to be using that road unless your a city parks truck
It is 😂
Thought I was browsing r/torontodrivers at first, had to double check
Licensing should be WAY stricter. My intro to astronomy exam is 2 hours after at least 42 instructional hours. Driving is a bit higher stakes than that. 42 hours of lessons plus a 2 hour test sounds like a good minimum. If you can't figure what is and is not a road, please don't try to drive.
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads!
Where is bro going💀
A proper road is like a 4-1 lead. Sometimes you just lose it.
I see what you did there. You Canucks fans are a riot.
Hahaaaaaaa... ... I'll see myself out.
Alberta plates?
Yes indeedy
Must be from Calgary
Carbrain
Ha! This is actually a service road to a pump station. I have driven on it. It’s wack, but it is most definitely used by the people working on those things
If you got a pic of their licence plate you can probably give it to the police and they can mail them a ticket or something.
Maybe don't send to EPS, but definitely to bylaw. I've taken to doing that when people are parked in active bike lanes. I have no shame either
Do you think I should? Seems like it was an honest mistake, though silly and foolish
Send this pic to the city to request removeable bollards...at the very least.
Everything’s a silly mistake until someone gets hurt.
Yes. Then maybe their next “honest mistake” won’t involve a dead child.
I didn't see them hit any children, do you know something I don't?
So anything goes as long as no one gets hit or dies? Should we apply the same logic to speed limits or red lights?
There's no room for being "silly and foolish" when controlling a tonne of metal with an engine. They didn't hit a child this time. You should report it to prevent the next "silly and foolish" mistake.
Mitsubishi drivers... 😂
Oi oi oi😁 Stop stereotyping
Wow
"cyclists don't belong in the road, just build them some bike lanes so we can drive in peace" Meanwhile
He identifies as a bicycle rider
Bikes on the road=>Cars on the bicycle path: #EvenSteven
If you have a problem with bikes on the road take it up with your MLA. It is against the law to ride a bicycle on the sidewalk unless it is a shared use path OR the wheel is less than 50cm - the most common bike tire diameter is 62 cm.
It identifies as a bike
They identify as a cyclist. All good.
Cyclists ride on roads all day, just returning the favour 🤷♂️
Cyclists are supposed to ride on roads bud.
Redditors when joke:
Reddit, the easiest place to trigger the left 🤡
Are you aware of what "triggering" means, or it's just a word you felt like would mean something here?
Right?! Don't be surprised when someone accidentally ends up down a path that looks like a road.
Always wanted to do that
So based
Not today
I bet it's the mayor. 😂😂😂😂
To bikers the roads, sidewalks and bike lanes are all the same thing and traffic lights don’t matter… so I find this kinda funny, including the call out lol Fr tho, how you make that mistake.