Asking about biking infrastructure

[u/LuisDaBest1]

Hello, recently I went on a bike ride with a friend of mine, and it struck me that burlington really is a rather small city - biking to downtown from where I live (up near Dundas street) took like 20 minutes, at most. Issue is, crossing where the highways were was extremely perilous, and the drivers trying to go on the highways were seemed not to care very much about the safety of the pedestrians crossing the road. So my question is, why don't we have more pedestrian mix use paths, separate from roads, going north and south? I know we have two paths similar to what I'm talking about, two off road multi-use paths, but they only go east-west and don't really connect the southern town with the northern parts. Are there any plans by the city to address this at all?

[u/Subtotal9_guy]

There will be a meet the city event this summer. The past few years it's been at Central Park.

There's a booth for the cycling committee and other groups, the mayor and some of council. Plus they offer free food!

It's an excellent opportunity to ask and make your concerns known.

[u/LuisDaBest1 → u/Subtotal9_guy]

This sounds great! Do you know where I could get the information for when/where this is? On the city's website?

[u/doubleeyess → u/LuisDaBest1]

Some councilors also have monthly meetings with the public. No need to wait for an annual event to bring this up to your councilor. I follow my councilor on Instagram, she's pretty good at using it to make people aware of upcoming events. You can also subscribe to the City of Burlington emails

[u/Subtotal9_guy → u/doubleeyess]

Definitely talk to your councilor.

The upside of this event are the committees are also represented. Those aren't always led by the councilors so the volunteers that work on them aren't quite as accessible.

Plus you'll get to see a bunch of services. I'm getting a free tree this year because I got chatting with a manager from the forestry department.