Cycling in Waterloo Region

[clasher]

Sometimes I have breakfast at city cafe and watch the police sit in the Victoria Bowl parking lot as people ride by on the sidewalk. They don't seem to care, nor do they seem to care about people cross the trail mid-block instead of walking to the lights. I use the lights going northbound when there is a lot of traffic during the busy hours but outside of those times the sensor on strange doesn't seem to recognize a bike in the left turn lane. Going south during busy hours, I will often detour on Gage and ride down Strange to use the road but still end up waiting in the Lai Lai parking lot for traffic to pass while I make the turn back onto the trail.

At Courtland/Stirling going toward Ottawa St. I will often just ride into the left turn lane and make a left onto Stirling and hop the curb to get back onto the trail. Going toward Queen I just hop off the curb and make a right turn at the lights and make a left into the stampede plaza and get on the trail. If it's busy I will just ride up Stirling and go in the Stampede parking lot and use the little dirt path to get back onto the iron horse. Dismounting and pushing my bike through the people waiting for the bus stop is kind of annoying so I'd rather just ride around them.