Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Canard]

The Northfield bridge really should have made the sidewalks wider, and declared them as MUTs.  I saw that part of the confusion you had was that the bike lane was half full of snow.  If they gave even half the width of that bike lane to a widened sidewalk, it could work.

After giving this another shot this weekend past, I realized where my original confusion came from.  Here's a photo showing the lane markings (or lack thereof).

   

Note on the right the arrow on the "Bike Lane" sign is pointing directly at the Sidewalk/MUT. When I went across the tracks, I looked up and that's what I saw (and didn't see a bike lane on the road), so I rode on the sidewalk. I rode across the 85 Southbound On-Ramp, across the little triangle of land, across the Hwy 85 Southbound Off-Ramp, and then realized "oh shoot, there's a bike lane now to my left".