A rubber fitting is needed to prevent further crashes at this site. The floating ramp joints are comparable to small curbs and are a detriment to the usefulness of the Eastbank Esplanade for commuting.
It turns out the ramp joints have rubber fittings at their bases. The problem is simply that these fittings were designed with too steep of a profile (it looked like an incline of between 1:1 and 1:3). Ideally the profile angle of the fitting should be more comparable to the angle of a wheelchair ramp or speed hump (1:12 or shallower). The only challenge I can see to doing this is ensuring that the rubber fitting is glued down with a sufficiently secure epoxy that the thin end does not lift up. I hope that is not an insurmountable challenge.
This hasn’t been so bad ever since I finally got the hang of shifting my weight back and hovering my hands around the drop bars in order ride through bumps at high speeds. Still, I can’t imagine it would be that hard to switch out the rubber fittings for some longer ones. At least the issue is documented now.
I think this transition could be smoother, and at the very least, there should be more advanced warning about these bumps. We inspected these not long ago and noticed one connection that is missing the rubber flange, it's possible the easiest fix may be to remove the rubber altogether, although I'm not sure what the maintenance impact might be
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