Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Duke St. being regional is subject to the whims of the region's planners. Their proposed plans, in my opinion, do not qualify as connected protected/all ages and abilities infrastructure. I would consider their proposal to be not a connection.

And...it doesn't end there, it seems probable that Ontario St. could also get cut, given the...disappointing...pushback from the merchants on that street, if Duke St. doesn't get built, my money is on Ontario St. also getting the "pretend infra" treatment.

And, way back to the beginning, Water St. already got compromised, by removing the traffic diversion at Jubilee Dr.

On the other hand, I did see that some of the non-through street filtering road furniture was U/C in Central Frederick. I don't ride in that area enough to know if its going to be a big change, but at least all of those didn't get nixed.

Yeah, I was happy about that as well. I think it will make some difference, although those areas already had limited through traffic. I suspect what it will do is prevent the changes to Lancaster causing an increase in cut-through traffic, so if all goes to plan, there will be no change--which is just so useful for convincing people something is a good idea.

I get the general feels that Central Frederick is a more progressive community than Victoria Park. This could just be my biases and perception and not be reflective of reality but it could also be related to the fact that Victoria Park is one of those things that people kinda say rather than "Downtown" i.e., more progressive folks just say they life "downtown". But I'm just speculating here.