Réhabilitation structurale du pont Macdonald-Cartier

Plusieurs cyclistes ont dû le remarquer, des changements ont eu lieu très récemment sur le pont Mcdonald-Cartier (PMC), le trottoir ''réservé'' aux cyclistes.  C'est un trottoir, donc réserver aux pieétons, mais on a toléré pendant longtemps.


Travaux Publics Canada (TPC) vient de lancer l'évaluation environnementale:
http://www.ceaa.gc.ca/050/details-fra.cfm?evaluation=67275


Cette phrase est très positive pour nous:

'' le remplacement du garde-corps extérieur et du trottoir par un nouveau garde-corps, un trottoir polyvalent plus large et un mur séparateur ''

Des consultations avec les groupes d'intérêts auront peut-être lieu en Juin.  Il devrait y avoir des consultations publiques probablement à l'automne.  À ce moment-ci, il n'y a aucune information disponible.  Bien entendu, je mettrais l'info sur ce blogue dès que je l'aurai reçu.

Entretemps, voici un petit compte-rendu fait par des cyclistes anglophones sur des courriels échangés avec le groupe Citizens for Safe Cycling:

'' First, Foreign Affairs removed the trail behind the Lester B Pearson building that allowed a cyclist to cross the bridge and pass behind the Pearson building. Now PWGSC is trying to push cycling off the bridge. ''

''I estimate usage of the sidewalk to be two cyclists for every pedestrian''

'' That sidewalk gets very little, but steady pedestrian traffic with long sight lines.  There are concrete barriers that were installed just within the last couple of years, making it impossible to change from using the sidewalk to using the road.  The outside lanes on the roadway are very wide and easily sharable.  The speed is marked as 50km/h on the Ontario side and 70km/h on the Quebec side, but the speeds in practice can be much higher.  Southbound (towards Ottawa) the speeds are lowered to 40km/h and even 30km/h between the bridge and King Edward, so theoretically a cyclist can keep up with traffic there, but I've been honked at while over that speed limit on both bicycle and while driving a motor vehicle. ''

'' I've used that sidewalk once or twice by bike, but most of the time I've ridden on the road surface and exitted immediately, either onto the pathway after the bridge (in both directions), or at the next exit (first exit on the Quebec side, to 148 which is a legal cycling route) 

As noted above and in another reply to your message, there certainly is the roadway space to take to make a cycleway there. ''

'' Bicycles are allowed on both directions of the roadway on the Alexandra bridge, but northbound (to Gatineau) it is a metal grate that might give you vertigo if you look straight down at the river (>100') and it is *very* dangerous in the rain.  On a tricycle you will be fine.  There is a wooden deck shared use pathway on the west side of the bridge which was just recently replaced, so there are no longer any nails sticking up to give you punctures. ''

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