Cycling in Waterloo Region

[cherrypark]

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 am routinely amazed at how completely unable and unwilling the region (and the city to a lesser extent) is at learning how to and designing for proper cycling interaction with interchanges. 

The number of MUTs that unceremoniously narrow to sidewalk standards, zero grading considerations, and brutally bad sight lines at each intersection they cross as got to be >90%. I can barely think of one that doesn't get treated this way. And thats not even considering whatever the hell the design standard is for all the bike gutters they painted onto Ira Needles and their vanishing act at every roundabout.