Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Pheidippides]

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.

Options include:

A) The business they were delivering too has a driveway which could be used.
B) There's a side road with parking only 50 meters away, if UPS chose to prioritize safety instead of profit, they could park there.
C) Park in the vehicle lane!

Unfortunately, for a company like UPS that has the cost of each additional keystroke figured out ($100,000) none of these options make economic sense for them.