Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Who was responsible for this design?  Would it have been GrandLinq, or the Region, or the City of Waterloo?

I'm not an avid cyclist but isn't this the correct design with right lane faster moving or exiting lanes?

Define correct?

It meets the standards set out by the province in the MTO's engineering documents for building bike lanes through interchanges.  That doesn't mean that the design is good, only that a relatively large group of engineers has decided to agree on it.

I call it wrong because it I feel it doesn't meet the needs of the vast majority of the users of the road who aren't in cars, but that's only my opinion, and even more, my definition of "correct". Although, my opinion is informed by best practices in places which actually have a lot of people cycling and walking--I don't want to say that I know better than civil engineers, but in this instance, I'm going to.