Cycling in Waterloo Region

[robd]

At least there's room at go around? Plenty of sidewalks with light/hydro poles that you can hardly walk around, let alone pass with a stroller or wheelchair. Trying too look on the bright side here...

Where is this?

Fountain Street in Preston. There are a bunch of interesting light poles that also kinda creep into the bike lane. It's tolerable, but annoying the things you have to tolerate that others don't.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.3983691,-80.370207,18z

This isn't even the worst part of the infrastructure. total length is 850m, for some reason it crosses from one side of the road to the other where you would legally have to walk your bike, no signage of the end of the infrastructure and painted arrows that don't hint at the switch in sides so you end up riding on a sidewalk. The refusal to appropriate minimum amount of land along fountain to connect it with the MUP or send it up Shantz Hill makes it infrastructure to nowhere.

It is better than nothing but I regularly have to break the law just to be keep my kid safe. This is also a surprisingly busy area for active transportation.