Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

So for the entire winter, drivers will be taught to use the segregated bike lanes as parking?

...I can't express my rage.

This might make the city/region have to stick their hands up and put full-on green paint over the entire thing, much to the objection of UpTown store owners and nearby neighbourhood associations, complaining that it ruins the character of UpTown. But this is beyond unacceptable.

Do I think we should be stopping in the middle of the street, or going up and down King St. at 10kph? No. But I won't deny I thought for a moment, what would police do if I drove my bike into every parked car and dented their bumpers. Would they do anything to anyone other than me?

Well, let’s see what happens once the signage is in place. But if it does come down to vigilante action, I think extremely sticky, difficult-to-remove, “no parking — bike lane” stickers affixed to their windshields would be the thing. It’s not really damaging but it would get the point across and can be done quickly to a whole row of cars.

Of course what should really happen is that as soon as the signs go up (which should have happened before opening, but whatever) is that the City should tow every car immediately. They should just have an officer and as many tow trucks as needed go up and down the street until there are no more cars parked in traffic lanes (do the LRT curb lane segment too), then go on break for 20 minutes and come back and do another patrol all day. What would they do if somebody parked in a general traffic lane? Anything less done to cars in bike lanes represents yet another example of the double standard.