Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Canard]

ONTARIO 20 YEAR CYCLING STRATEGY 

Ontario has first 20-year plan for #Ontario cycling. Here is #CycleON 1.0 Brochure and there is a link for their version of how  to plan and  promote the growth of cycling across the  province over next 20 years. I have attached Information brochure captures.

#CycleON: Ontario's Cycling Strategy

This looks wonderful!!

Also, for as many times as we have gone along it, now, I had no idea there was 20 km of brand-new, paved, MUT-like trails along the Rt. Hon. Herb Gray Parkway in Windsor!!  I guess that's the point - if I can't see it from the road, it's done pretty well!

I'll freely admit that I'm 90% a recreational cyclist (grab my bike and go for a "ride", because I enjoy the experience - but start and finish line are the same point) and 10% using my bike to actually get somewhere*.  In the last couple of months, I've biked to work and back a couple of times a week... but the biggest blockade, to me, to using a bike for "real" transportation is how much wondering and pondering I have to do ahead of time to figure out "Could I even get there?"  If the network of trails and road infrastructure was set up in a robust enough fashion where that planing element for a journey didn't even need to happen, I think it'd be a huge success, and more and more people would give it a go. I did bike to Zoup once in Waterloo and used a pannier to bring dinner home one night.

* - Actually, now I'll have to look this up on Strava, I'm kind of curious what the breakdown is over the summer!