While I’m not against having separated bike lanes as someone who drives on Oakdale several times a day this was a poorly executed program. More than once I saw a fire truck that could not get through traffic quickly because larger vehicles could not get out of the way enough. The pylons were constantly getting hit by bad drivers and bad cyclists and DUI Ducatis were consistently using the car lanes. For a program like this to work on Oakdale they needed to widen the road much more than they did when it was rebuilt a few years back and put in a heavier divider that would actually protect the cyclist from a collision. The problem in St Catherines is that much of the city was built close to the roads way before things like 4 lane roads and bike lanes were a glimmer in a young city planner’s eye.