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Fort St., Victoria, BC, 2006
A project to implement bike lanes along Victoria's Fort St. faced strong resistance for the first of three phases that put the corridor on a road diet, reducing a 4 lane cross-section for most of its length with a 3 lane design. At the time, even a road diet was a radical proposal.
Road diets can moderate speeds by eliminating the pulse patterns of traffic that have motorists rush between signals and replacing those with a calmer pattern that provides for a steady flow at speeds more closely resembling posted limits.
The design added generous bike lanes (at about 1.7 metres or so for most of the route. Landscaped medians also helped to narrow the visual cues for drivers, another benefit to keep speeds more reflective of prudent urban patterns. Left turning vehicles were taken out of the through lanes with two-way left turn lanes where needed. 4 lane cross-sections, often enough, are plugged up with left turners, and encourage dangerous weaving movements as through traffic dart around those stopped for turns.
While not all of the expense would meet the test of "was this money spent on bike facilities", the primary purpose of the project was to achieve that objective and leveraged funds from other budgets, and also secured some funding from other sources.
Over the three years of multiple phases, close to $3 million was spent and, while a hard road to travel for the first section, subsequent phases were met with more acceptance as performance issues played out as city engineers had predicted. Even the transit drivers and emergency services resistors were turned around by success.
It was no small investment and certainly absorbed much more than any notional budgets that were identified for cycling.
It created no new road space and, though capacity for through traffic remained effectively intact, significant chunks of asphalt were repurposed to better support cycling or, as was in the case on this project, more crossing opportunities for pedestrians, better sidewalks, and some modest improvements to storm water management.
Good projects don't always work in isolation but take advantage of creative deployment of diverse resources to achieve multiple objectives.
With the first phase is nearly a decade old, paint works and more recent thinkers might have suggested different approaches, though at many multiples of actual costs, might have stopped evolution before it even started as both too costly and too determinist in design.
At current boilerplate budget numbers, separation would have taken decades, even given similar, if generous resources, and any mistakes so much harder to correct.
Smarthphones are apart of the generation of computers. You can do almost everything you can do on a computer on a smart phone these days. This helps increase mobility as well as creating a lot of convenience.
There is a song about Evolution Valley, by "Hot Buttered Rum String Band" Every time I see photos or think of the place that song gets in my head.
Anyhow, its a really beautiful area, probably my #1 place to recommend
Evolution? Absolutely not! If anyone has been taught that this is how evolution works, your teacher needs to study up. This is a far reach for even artificial selection. Natural selection works in basically the opposite direction I have presented here. What I have done is basically undo perhaps countless millenia of natural selection in a single generation in captivity. I am very happy with how pretty they turned out though. I'm looking forward to perhaps continuing this study.
Spettacolo con la Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X sul circuito di Vizzola
In diretta dalla pista di Vizzola con il test della Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
In diretta dalla pista di Vizzola con il test della Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X
Managing partner of Evolution LLP, Martin Barber (left) Joanne Regan FCA, Client Partner and Head of Audit (right), celebrating becoming part of HLB International.
An illustrative example of homology (in German).
Homology:
In evolutionary biology, homology refers to any similarity between characteristics of organisms that is due to their shared ancestry. The word homologous derives from the ancient Greek ομολογειν, 'to agree'. There are examples in different branches of biology. Anatomical structures that perform the same function in different biological species and evolved from the same structure in some ancestor species are homologous. In genetics, homology refers to a similarity of DNA sequences. The DNA sequences are usually similar, not identical. DNA sequences in the same cell can be similar, and DNA in different organisms can be similar. DNA codes with similar sequences are presumed to have a common ancestry. Homologous chromosomes are chromosomes with the same genes and similar sequences. Homology is important in reproduction because pairs of homologous chromosomes line up together during meiosis. - enWikipedia