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    [image-1] What's wrong? Bike-unfriendly barriers, Dartmouth waterfront trail. Who's responsible? Terry Drisdelle, Waterfront Development Corporation, 422-5115. REMARKS The new "chicanes" were required by CN, says Drisdelle, because travelling through them requires facing one direction, then the opposite, so that it's almost impossible to not see that one train a day rolling at five km/hr down the tracks. And yes, they were specifically designed to force bikers to dismount. Send your favourite municipal malfunction to onpatrol@thecoast.ca, or call 422-6278 ext. 113. To follow up on past problems, click on thecoast.ca.
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Bike-unfriendly barriers, Dartmouth waterfront trail.

Posted by Patrol Superintendent Laportno on Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:00 AM

What’s wrong?
Bike-unfriendly barriers, Dartmouth waterfront trail.

Who’s responsible?
Terry Drisdelle, Waterfront Development Corporation, 422-5115.

REMARKS
The new “chicanes” were required by CN, says Drisdelle, because travelling through them requires facing one direction, then the opposite, so that it’s almost impossible to not see that one train a day rolling at five km/hr down the tracks. And yes, they were specifically designed to force bikers to dismount.

Send your favourite municipal malfunction to onpatrol@thecoast.ca, or call 422-6278 ext. 113. To follow up on past problems, click on thecoast.ca.

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Why are these chicanes a bad thing? Well you can't go through them with a child trailer on your bike. Just won't fit without disassembling it and lifting it over the chicanes.

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Posted by tkos on April 7, 2010 at 1:06 PM

These "chicanes" are absolutely crazy. Not only do they suck for bikers if one walks though them it makes them feel like "cattle" being herded.

If these were truly "required" by CN why have they not been there for the last 5 years?

Would be nice if someone would get rid of them. "Required to force people to see the train? Are you kidding me"

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Posted by Dartmouth_Dude on February 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM

Could some please explain to me why the hell these chicanes (no need for quotes around that word btw) are a bad thing?? It covers CN from insurance claims from idiots that peddle into a train and it probably may actually save a biker or two. So you have to dismount for five seconds, BIG DEAL.

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Posted by FunkyMunky on December 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM

http://www.cyclehalifax.ca/hccboards/viewt…

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Posted by AH on November 23, 2009 at 2:28 PM

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