Catriking the Laurier Avenue West Bike Lane on Opening Day

We ride our Catrikes on the brand new Laurier Avenue West bike lane in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on 10 July 2011, an hour before the opening ceremonies. We started near Elgin Street at the east side and went up to just near Bronson at the west side, turned around and came back to exit onto the bike pathway parallel to the Queen Elisabeth Driveway.

To make things more interesting the video is run at 7X speed.

Our home website is http://web.ncf.ca/adamandruth/

This video was created with Kino 1.3.4 running on the Lubuntu 11.04 Linux operating system.

The music is "Shadow My Skin 2010" from the album "Monument" by Shearer. Creative Commons 2.0 licensed free music. Download the whole album for free at http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/69778

The official City of Ottawa video on the lane is at http://www.youtube.com/user/cityottawa?feature=mhee#p/u/3/BVQsqGVWswI

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[Adam99001]

Thanks for your comment, glad you found this of interest! The left turn question is a good one. The city has provided special boxes that you pull out into on the right at an intersection and then line up on the perpendicular street to effectively make the left turn safely, The official city video actually shows how it is done better than any written description can do, but You Tube won't allow a link here to it.

[14051996]

Greetings from the Uk. Nice cycle lane you have over there. Just out of interest, how would you negotiate a left turn at crossroads? Thanks, Sam.

[dregerclock]

Cool Video. fun to see it all in high speed.