Cycling in Waterloo Region

[the_conestoga_guy]

I can't be bothered to tell you why most of you are wrong on this form these days, I just stay quiet. Clearly almost nobody on this forum works in the professional architecture/planning/engineering/design/traffic industry world. So many bad takes here, especially in the infrastructure section. This place is a goldmine.

It is pretty funny at least. Lots of seriously bad take content that has made it to a few big 'bad engineering takes' or 'bad planning takes' meme accounts from here. ⭐

As someone who isn't a civil/transportation engineer themselves but works on multi-disciplinary teams with them on roadway projects, there have been several instances where I've recalled comments from this website and used them during design coordination meetings. Not necessarily the specific comments themselves, but comments that are applicable to other projects that I'm working on. Project designs are incredibly fluid before the 60% design submission stage, so I've often been able to ask roadway designers to make seemingly tiny changes to their designs if I can make a half-decent argument for them.

I like to think of it as a form of guerrilla urbanism - or at least my own contribution to the greater good.