Cycling in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

I would love to see the bike path on the protected side of the crash barrier, but there is not enough space under the bridge abutments to place it.

In my completely non-structural engineer opinion, it should be possible to use a combination of raising the trail and installing retaining walls to make the space, but I neither know the technical possibility nor cost of doing that. I do know that such an option was deemed impossible for the LRT bridge under Weber St. which is why the Market Trail (Phase 2) does not follow the tracks and instead follows Parkside.

I think your idea should work. Maybe not a particularly wide trail but something usable. They actually propose this in Option 1, but for some reason not in Option 2.

I agree with you that Option 1 looks like the best idea in the balance.