From Tuesday, Feb 17’s Windsor Star

“A residents’ group which has launched a court challenge over a plan to widen Riverside Drive for bike lanes says the road should become a single lane for one-way vehicle traffic, with the other lane reserved for cyclists…

…But a local cyclist said the group’s suggestion is just another delaying tactic to derail the city’s Riverside Vista Improvement project.

“These people need to do investigations before throwing out ideas like this,” said Walkerville resident Chris Holt, web operator of scaledown.ca, who travels the city on foot or bike.

He said one-way streets have been shown to increase traffic speed.

“The trend now is to go back to two-way streets to slow traffic,” Holt said.

He said the environmental assessment process for the Riverside drive plan didn’t go in the residents’ favour and they are trying to delay the project by “muddying the waters.”

He called the one-way plan and court action red herrings to cover up the true intent of the homeowners, which is to fight losing the city-owned public right-of-ways that front their properties.

“Just come out and say it instead of these diversions,” said Holt, who has assembled a nine-minute YouTube video that shows him riding the Riverside stretch in busy traffic and illustrates a handful of instances where it appears fences and landscaping has been constructed on city property.”

Read the entire article here.

The same day, the editorial board of the Windsor Star ran this editorial, and the following day journalist Anne Jarvis published this op-ed.  This outouring of support for Riverside Drive Cycling Infrastructure was prompted by the newly formed Riverside Neighbourhood Inc.’s hiring of a Toronto Lawyer and taking the RDVIP to judicial review as outlined in this article from Feb 13.

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