Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

I just realized that my centre bikelane idea is not as unprecedented as I had implicitly assumed: diverging diamonds very naturally work with the non-motor-vehicle space down the middle. I don’t know if they all do, but here is an example of one that does indeed put it in the middle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CVqvZR6eeg

Of course, this one is much more unpleasant than my Northfield idea owing to the motor vehicle lanes being right beside the multiuse trail rather than being separated by LRT tracks, and there are many other criticisms that can be made about what is seen in the video. Nevertheless, I think this puts the final nail in the coffin of the idea that my idea is inadmissably bad and need not be considered, given that something like it has already been implemented in real life.

Indeed. Especially given the worst parts of that infra (crossing the slip ramps) are exactly the thing we will be removing lol.

Right, I have the crossings at regular signalized intersections.

It’s interesting that even in the video, left turns don’t interact with the path crossings at all; only the right turns, and it appears that while the on-ramp right turn has the path yielding to motor vehicles, the off-ramp right turn has a signal. I would want to consider making the right turn ramps more like regular turns, and also look at signalizing the on-ramp right turns as well.