05-12-2017, 08:08 PM
(05-12-2017, 07:31 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: There was room on King for bike lane from Erb to William or further south, but there was a greater "need" for on-street parking that was lost to the LRT and streetscape work.
This was pure politics, to get the uptown businesses (and the Waterloo city council?) on board. Objectively speaking there is plenty of parking, but the region decided to concede this point in order to get agreement on LRT overall.
Personally, I would give up the parking lane in a second, but the broad sidewalks are what we should have in the central urban core of (the city of) Waterloo.