From the perspective of this tradesperson, its not unsettling to see the use of two stainless steel, six foot diameter, discarded lumber saw mill blades as a bicycle wheel for an oversize fish.
What is unsettling is that circular and table saw blades turn counter-clockwise.
Circular saw cuts into wood that is stable.
Wood is fed into a fixed table saw blade.
Counter Clockwise rotation |
New Delbrook Community Recreation Centre |
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Moving forward - Reading backwards:
A sign of the DNV time$ You are now leaving ......
A wooden sign for Murdo Frazer Park has been visible from the road for pedestrians and motorists, and CYCLISTS for at least the last twelve years, so why spend a ton of cash building a sign that is not visible to anyone, a hundred feet into the woods and doesn't match any other park sign in the District? Are there more park sign changes in the work? The collected property taxes are paying for these sign changes.
Murdo Frazer Park: Black sign: cut-out Lettering on a Forest Green background. At night its Black on Black even with the lighting |
Result: Bike Trough needed for the concrete stairs to accommodate the cyclists.
At that point, DNV should have hired a Rocket scientist to figure out their bike trough logic because of the existing concrete stairs didn't run in a straight line.
The experts have one thing in common, bike troughs only work along straight run.
Bike Troughs don't Zig, and then Zag, they do in DNV.
Experts:
Wikipedia Bike Trough
WashCycle Bike Trough
Cycle Works Ltd. Bike Trough
Seattle Bike Blog Bike Trough
Seattle has finally done it. They figured out how to build a functional
stairway “runnel” that also includes railings required to meet
accessibility guidelines.
Do both wheels of a bicycle follow the same path? |
Bike Portland |
Do both wheels of a bicycle follow the same path? |
DNV Murdo Frazer Park stairs: 'crooked like a Dog's hind leg' |
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Moving along: Same topic: Stopping a tank with steel and concrete?
Concrete abutment strong enough to stop a tank. Same design at the top. |
Grinder to the rescue.
Galvanized Steel is rusting.
The Sign:
You have now arrived at .... steel plate lettering cut our with a laser? |
One minor detail: the Colour scheme: its totally the opposite from street signage.
I don't know why District goes through the bother of building such expensive "bike troughs" since most bikers just ride down the stairs with ease, like this fine fellow on Fromme Mtn. -
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Meanwhile, District of North Vancouver "cleared up the confusion", telling us that if bikers use the stairs they have to carry their bikes, not ride them on the stairs...
In any case, bikers never seem to dismount their steeds. They expect everyone else to kow tow to them. Entitlement comes with great costs.
One cyclist carrying the bike up the stairs means there's no space for pedestrians to pass?
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