(01-24-2023, 12:00 PM)SF22 Wrote: What kind of bike parking is available at Fairview Mall? I'm trying to see via Google Streetview, but the images are from 2020 and the entire front-end got redesigned since then, so I'm not sure what's really there. As far as I can tell, there are 3 parking posts on the Kingsway side by the food court. Is that honestly it? 

(01-31-2023, 10:37 PM)tomh009 Wrote: On a positive (anecdotal) note, it looks to me that the downtown bike lanes have been kept pretty clear of snow this winter. Not that I have been on my bike in the last two months, though!

(01-31-2023, 11:31 PM)Acitta Wrote: I took this picture Monday. The sign on the pedestrian island on Weber St. in Waterloo has been knocked down again. 

(02-01-2023, 10:25 AM)cherrypark Wrote:

(01-31-2023, 11:31 PM)Acitta Wrote: I took this picture Monday. The sign on the pedestrian island on Weber St. in Waterloo has been knocked down again. 

Is there a law in the province that forbids the use of bollards? Or is that just too much to ask? The number of times that sign as gotten nailed should make it obvious that "refuge" for pedestrians is not safe (not that it would be acceptable with that change alone anyways). Same applies for Victoria/IHT.

(02-01-2023, 01:27 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's not a law, but engineering practices, and for good reasons. Engineers do actually care about some aspects of safety. They're incompetent about it, but they do care. For example, engineering practices often require a "clear zone" around roads with no obstructions, so that vehicle occupants are less likely to be killed in a vehicle departing the roadway. Of course, that's a highway engineering standard that engineers wrongly apply in (some) cities. Of course, these same engineers also place pedestrians in this clear zone. After all, a pedestrian is no danger to an out of control driver.

So...for the same reason they wouldn't put a bollard on the island. The bollard could injure or kill a driver or other vehicle occupant.

This is why we have flex posts everywhere by the way.

(02-01-2023, 01:44 PM)cherrypark Wrote:

(02-01-2023, 01:27 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: It's not a law, but engineering practices, and for good reasons. Engineers do actually care about some aspects of safety. They're incompetent about it, but they do care. For example, engineering practices often require a "clear zone" around roads with no obstructions, so that vehicle occupants are less likely to be killed in a vehicle departing the roadway. Of course, that's a highway engineering standard that engineers wrongly apply in (some) cities. Of course, these same engineers also place pedestrians in this clear zone. After all, a pedestrian is no danger to an out of control driver.

So...for the same reason they wouldn't put a bollard on the island. The bollard could injure or kill a driver or other vehicle occupant.

This is why we have flex posts everywhere by the way.

Fair enough - pedestrians are basically just moist flex posts. Shame about the epidemic of bollard-vehicle collision deaths in Europe by the way.

(02-01-2023, 04:54 PM)ac3r Wrote: Someone on Reddit posted about wanting to do a guerilla bus stop bench campaign. Maybe we could all join forces in some major region wide offensive? Install bollards on islands and other places, install benches at bus stops, get some old barrels and put trash cans along city trails and stuff. All we need to do is take a trip to KW Surplus and pick up some clipboards and hi vis vests and nobody would stop us!