It's a County road, was done with some of that Federal funding they were handing out a couple of years ago. I figure they had it on the books already, so the feds were still putting up some cash. Actually here in Grey-Bruce there is a lot of bicycle Infrastructure, even some of it provincial. There are bike lanes on Hwy 6 between Mar and Tobermory...

Couch it in statistics and traffic laws and tax money all you want but the grind between cars and bikes is about perspectives. Yes, bikes on roads represent traffic, tax, insurance, and civic engineering conflicts more entangled and broken boned than Judge Judy could sort out in a month. But this thread concerns itself with the subject of escalating antagonism twingst two and four tires. I started jogging on roads in 1965 and it was the same thing ; joggers were perceived as different and alien to neighborhood values (and we probably were). However, I think this round of 'change' is different and more threatening to the neighborhood in that activities like biking represent more of an identity which carries politics and class and lifestyle in the saddlebags than back when. More than before, we 'are' what we do and the commuter cars 'are' what they don't. Antagonism on the roads probably tracks beside antagonism in politics and belief systems. It is especially sad that asphalt conflicts are so often unnecessary and pointless. Wish I knew the way, but I do think older folks have something extra to share in the solutions.

My understanding is that if federal funds are used it has to have bike lanes. All our federally funded road improvements where I live have had bike lanes added. I believe Florida state funding has (or had ) the same requirements. Our county roads never get them unless for some reason they get state or federal funds like for improving the county road to the new airport.

Al

Which is all nice and fine, except that Federal Funding in this case is part of the Canada Action Plan, a whole whack of Canadian infrastructure projects to keep construction workers going until the economy bounces back. It has started to bounce back, and we should have the economy firing on all cylinders by the end of next year, with the government balancing the budget again in the 2013-2014 time frame. In the mean time, using deficit spending to make useful make work projects, means you end up with a lot of desperately needed new and rebuilt infrastructure.