{"id":788101,"date":"2026-07-08T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788101\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:27:58","slug":"edmonton-city-council-considering-options-after-residents-say-50th-street-bike-lanes-pose-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/788101\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton city council considering options after residents say 50th Street bike lanes pose problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

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City council is looking into alternative ways to incorporate bike lanes on an east Edmonton street, as residents say they worry the lanes come at the expense of parking and safe street access. <\/p>\n

The city is currently planning to install bike lanes and shared pathways along a large swath of 50th Street, between 102nd Avenue and 109A Avenue. That portion cuts through Capilano, Gold Bar and Fulton Place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of the city\u2019s Active Transportation Network Expansion program<\/a>, which looks to improve and add shared pathways to a number of roads.<\/p>\n

City administration has since ordered a pause on construction until Tuesday so council can consider other ways to incorporate active transportation along the road.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dozens of area residents, like Shauna Dowson, gathered on Monday to protest the current plans and to ask city council to reconsider the bike lanes. <\/p>\n

\"blondeShauna Dowson has lived in the Capilano neighbourhood for about 26 years. She said she wants to see the city accommodate both drivers and cyclists. (Craig Ryan\/CBC)<\/p>\n

\u201cParking is obviously at the heart of this, but so is safety. And I don’t think that the safety of one group of people should be overshadowed by another group of people,\u201d said Dowson, who has lived in the Capilano neighbourhood for almost 26 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they put the bike lanes and take the parking away, there’s no way for you to, for example, get an Uber and get out of that Uber safely.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, she said she worries traffic congestion could skyrocket in the area.<\/p>\n

Dowson also said area residents had only recently learned of the city\u2019s plans to install bike lanes on the street. She said she remembers the city conducted consultation several years ago, but didn\u2019t follow up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat has been at the heart of the decision-making has not been citizens, but in rapid implementation. And that’s not right,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dowson said she and other residents are asking for the city to reconsider an option to install bike lanes that would accommodate drivers, cyclists, pedestrians and residents.<\/p>\n

Bike lane woes came to a head earlier this year, when Alberta Transportation Minister Devin Dreeshen said legislation would cycle through the legislature this fall<\/a>, which could give the government more power to review or remove bike lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ward M\u00e9tis Coun. Ashley Salvador, who represents the area, said she hopes city council can strike a balance when it comes to the 50th Street bike lane.<\/p>\n

\"aA large median separates 50th Street, which runs across three east Edmonton neighbourhoods. (Emma Zhao\/CBC)<\/p>\n

She said the city looked at alternative ways to balance bike lanes and street parking.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, we’re not dealing with a narrow or constrained roadway. We’re talking about a road that has four lanes of traffic and about a 10 metre-wide centre-running median,\u201d said Salvador.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo there is room to accommodate everyone and I think we should be looking at how we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edmonton\u2019s city council is expected to weigh out other options starting Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-788101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}