04-10-2018, 03:26 PM
(04-10-2018, 10:52 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-10-2018, 09:35 AM)robdrimmie Wrote: Regarding the Uptown Waterloo bike lanes, the city has made their position pretty clear: They are not bike lanes until the construction is complete. I don't see how protesting before they are "blessed" as being real lanes will make any kind of positive change. The city made a bad decision, but they've communicated that decision to us quite consistently.
So they've definitely clearly communicated that the bike lanes are closed. But that does not mean they are parking.
They have no parking signs and have had no parking signs for months, but bylaw has refused to enforce the no parking signs and recently the website now states that parking is permitted.
So the city has done a terrible job of communicating where parking is permitted.
As you say, the website says parking is permitted. Councillors and the city respond to inquiries about the lanes with "we are putting cards on." It took them a long time to get to that point, but the message over the past week or two has been clear. Wrong-headed in my opinion, but clear.
I also agree that it's going to take some time to unravel the miseducation. If we'd gone the winter with no plowing in the lanes and signs up that said "bike lanes under construction, coming this spring!" then they'd have had a good four months of educating drivers and cyclists both about what was coming.
I wish someone from King St. Cycles was on the forum. Their knowledge of cycling advocacy and the Uptown BIA would add some interesting depth to this that I don't think would come through from a simple twitter inquiry.