Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

I'm reminded of other bad regional bike infra - my local example is Block Line road, which has decent MUTs along it up from the Homer Watson ones - until just before Strasburg, when you get dumped onto painted lanes and have to navigate the intersection. Thanks, no thanks.

I think Block Line is actually a city project...and a fairly early one. I wasn't actually involved when it was done, but from what I hear it was controversial, it took most of the city's cycling budget at the time, and despite being bad at Strasburg, it was fairly progressive for the time it was done in.

I'd also argue that it's better than MUTs, it has real segregated bike lanes, AFAIK the intention is to separate cyclists and pedestrians...whether it happens in practice, I don't really know---certainly it is, as I said, a pretty early example, more of an experiment maybe.