Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

Ugh, tweet that!

I wonder what they're supposed to do, though. If there is nowhere to park nearby... are they supppsed to find a spot, no matter how far away, and walk back?

Is this a systemic problem of the drivers being under pressure to do their routes on time?

I’m not sure what the overall solution is. Fundamental problem is that there is a functional requirement for delivery vehicles to be able to stop briefly near essentially every address in the city, no matter how pedestrianized the immediate surroundings are. This is true even in areas where land values are way too high for surface parking to make sense.

Of course, maybe the solution is smaller delivery vehicles in some areas. It’s an error to take the vehicle itself as a given.