Cycling in Waterloo Region

[dtkvictim]

I can't be bothered to tell you why most of you are wrong on this form these days, I just stay quiet.

If that was the case, you wouldn't have made this provocative and unproductive post.

At the risk of being proven an idiot if I'm wrong about your experience, I would also call out that you are projecting your own expertise into fields you don't know about just as much as everyone else here. Though interestingly one major overlap I do see between your profession and infrastructure engineering is the consideration required to the experience of the end user, cyclists in this case, which you are blatantly ignoring. The bottom line is that the current bicycle lanes are virtually unusable, whereas I, someone who is conservative in my choice of safe infrastructure, would gladly use a center median cycle track protected on both sides by a fence and train track buffer. Center median cycle tracks succeed in cities all over the world, even if in more pleasant contexts. It's not the most ideal, nor most comfortable option, but no one has been arguing that it is. I don't need those from the self-aggrandizing architecture profession bestowing my preferences upon me, because I don't know better, as they so often do.

So please, now and always, do tell us when and why we are wrong, or else I can only assume you can't. Apologies for sounding irate, I'm willing to eat my words here, but it's what you were fishing for anyways.