{"id":17064,"date":"2022-07-24T21:22:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T01:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=17064"},"modified":"2022-07-24T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T01:22:17","slug":"kennedy-station-roads-are-open-to-bikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/24\/kennedy-station-roads-are-open-to-bikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Station roads are open to bikes again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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rather dodgy GPS trail of me riding a bike from Gatineau Trail through Kennedy Station<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It feels like forever, but it was probably 2018 that the roads through Kennedy Station were closed to dig the huge hole for the Eglinton Crosstown. So for all that time, I’ve been braving the deadly intersection at Kennedy and Eglinton to get back home from my daily bike ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as of late last week, the roads reopened and I’ve been enjoying the wheee!<\/em> instead of constant fear of dying. There’s still some work needed, so it’s not all sunbeams and cucumbers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • there’s still a misplaced Buses Only<\/em> sign eastbound on North Service Road. Since this is countermanded by bike and taxi signs on South Service Road continuing the same way, it’s clearly a mistake<\/li>
  • Transway Crescent is in a horrible state, with nearly six years of heavy construction traffic turning the surface into a knobbly mess. This can, and must, be fixed<\/li>
  • Perhaps most worrying is permanent signs that suggest the sidewalks will be designated shared-use. They’re far too narrow for that, and have none of the necessary safe entry\/exit points. As I’m a road user, the road I will use<\/li>
  • You still (as before) have to mix it with buses. Bus drivers are professionals, though, and part of the solution.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It feels like forever, but it was probably 2018 that the roads through Kennedy Station were closed to dig the huge hole for the Eglinton Crosstown. So for all that time, I’ve been braving the deadly intersection at Kennedy and Eglinton to get back home from my daily bike ride. But as of late last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[77,424],"class_list":["post-17064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bike-stuff","category-cars-suck","tag-bike","tag-kennedy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17066,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17064\/revisions\/17066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}