Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Sorry, not St. George, but Church. (After 6 years living here I still get the two confused.)

Ahh...no worries

IIRC Church was to get a "bikeway treatment" sharrows were actually painted the year before. I'm not sure what the transition will look like at Queen St., it did seem kinda weird in the plans, with the bikeway starting on Church just before the intersection, but I always thought that might lead to some conflicts.

Of course, then I moved here, and of course, there is a good design example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.1713226,...384!8i8192

It's not exactly the same, in this case we are going on a road with we'd call "advisory" bike lanes (the central space is too narrow for two way traffic, drivers must use the bike lanes to pass....but this section of road has very little traffic...like Church), you can see the bike lanes merge into a bikeway, while the roadway continues to the left...

It's actually a bit of an odd intersection but it has about 1000 times as many cyclists as drivers (it's the primary cycle route to my suburb, another suburb, a railway station, and a massive office park from the city centre) but only the drivers who live in one of the two buildings there would ever drive there because it isn't a through route for cars.

It is the kind of route unravelling that makes shared spaces work....