Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Yes, but with vehicle parking you also have the option of parking right in front of your destination should it be available.

When the same number of bike parking spots are available near the destination as previously are made available, and they are full, I will happily find the next closest rack.

But … right or wrong, we won't accept this same argument from someone driving a car, even if the number of parking spaces has been reduced (as it has been in many areas along the LRT route).

Has parking been reduced along the route?  It hasn't in uptown (as mentioned, all parking spaces removed were replaced elsewhere).  In DTK there might have been some removed, but some time before a giant new parking garage was opened.

And you're right, we should be holding car parking to a different standard from bike parking...from the issue of space alone it should need 10 / 1.3 times the justification (10 bikes can fit in a car parking space, and I'm being generous with cars averaging 1.3 people per vehicle, and bikes carrying only 1).  And that's before considering the other reasons that we would like to reduce parking for cars.