Cycling in Waterloo Region

[timc]

The lane on Northfield cost money and it cost opportunity. And yet it provides zero value, people who would cycle there before, will still, and nobody new will cycle because of that lane. So we've spent money, and achieved nothing. Even worse, people (often bad faith people, but sometimes just really stupid people) will point to that lane and complain "see we spend all this money on bike lanes and nobody cycles here".

I would never ride on Northfield before the lane was there, and now I do. So, not nobody. But I guess it's possible that there is only one net new user of Northfield due to the painted lanes. :-)