Signal timing, traffic volumes and merciful lack of cross conflicts from multiple parking lots. Wharf St. is a busy bicycle route alongside downtown Victoria’s (British Columbia), Inner Harbour. Signal phases are designed to support uninterrupted flow of bicycle traffic where multiple routes and streets at the Johnson St. bridgehead are signal controlled. Traffic volumes are robust and, as often as not, parking lots on the waterfront are a source of intersection conflicts for cyclists using this stretch of the network. Likewise, electic foot traffic often creates issues, as pedestrians wander into and out of the cycle track, treating it as an extension of the sidewalk, or crossing obliviously from the string of parked cars on the roadway adjacent to the cycle track. Growth in e-bikes and other human powered travel (cargo bikes, pedicabs etc.), sometimes create congestion delays and uncomfortable movements in a facility that appears now to be too narrow for the use it sees.
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