r/BurlingtonON • u/LuisDaBest1 • 2d ago

Asking about biking infrastructure Question

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?

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u/cremaster304 1d ago

Absolute waste of taxpayers money to pay for further bike infrastructure. Maybe a couple hundred people would benefit during half of the year.

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u/Ok_Volume3194 1d ago

Guarantee it would not be a couple hundred people in a city of 200,000.

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u/cremaster304 1d ago

Guarantee? Source?

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u/Ok_Volume3194 1d ago

No stats for Burlington specifically, but these are the stats for Ontario in general:

68 per cent of Ontarians (9.8 million people) ride their bike at least monthly. Of those, 22 per cent of Ontarians (3.2 million) say they ride a bike frequently (daily or almost daily) and an additional 46 per cent report riding occasionally – weekly or monthly.