Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

That's looking good.

I'll give them credit for ingenuity that they haven't displayed before. A centre running facility is about the only way to get a cycling facility safely through the interchange and the configuration of the one way roads provides an opportunity to implement it in a reasonable manner.

They also have a big opportunity at Lancaster and Bridgeport to make big improvements to what is one of the regions many highly dangerous intersections...especially since Lancaster is being rebuilt.

Yes, I’m very pleased to see that they’re including centre-running through the interchange as an option. They’ll need lights at the ramps, however, because right now left turns across the centre line are done in the usual “wait for a gap in traffic” way, which wouldn’t be safe with bicycles coming through the middle (as we know from LRT experience, both here and elsewhere).

To me it is obvious that there should be 2-way bicycle paths on both streets, regardless of what is chosen for the interchange. While we’re at it, let’s go on a road diet. There is absolutely no conceivable need for 4 lanes on Bridgeport west of Weber; even 3 is questionable, other than turn lanes. Personally if it were up to me I’d probably go to 1 lane plus turn lanes.