Cycling in Waterloo Region

[KevinL]

I'll say again, I don't agree that this looks like a parking lane.  Anyone paying any attention, should notice that this is not a parking lane.  It's basically mud at this point (even if they remove the cars, it won't be bikeable by anything less than a mountain bike now), and the picture clearly shows a crossride leading into the lane.  No competent driver should be confused about this if they took the time to look.

I'm sorry, but if I've never seen a crossride before how am I supposed to know that's what this is? 

The folks pictured have parked in a space reserved beside the roadway for a function other than throughput of vehicles. Without signage - which, somehow, is STILL MISSING - there is no straightforward way to intuit whether it is parking or a bike lane or whatever. As the vast majority of such spaces are for parking, and there are no signs forbidding it, drivers park. 

As for the condition of the ground, can you see that from in your car? And do you worry about it, knowing the road has just reopened from being under construction?