Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Wait. So the separated cycling lane pilot they announced in April of 2017 is only going to result in 650m on Bridgeport or 250m on Erb? It took two years to come up with that? Holy incramentalism Batman.

I thought that the pilot would at least result in a lane from King to the expressway or Caroline to Ira Needles; you know actually connect destinations people might want to go between with a new direct route.

Maybe with the new councils staff will get permission/direction to be bold and throw caution to the wind and build a whole kilometre in less than 6 months.

That piece didn't say that those 650m are the only segregated bike lanes that are going to be added. I don't quite think it's quite in the pilot area either. So I'm going to continue to be optimistic that we'll see more. Sometimes I'm wrong about these things.

Those sections are being considered (I hear they are leaning towards Erb) but are only a small portion of the Pilot.  Most of the Pilot route is including King between University and possibly as far north as Weber, University from King to the Laurel Trail or Seagram, Columbia the same, and Albert North from Columbia to ... somewhere.

Originally, it had planned to continue down King to Uptown, but they feel with the construction, it wouldn't be a good choice, but frankly, I think they're making a mistake, Uptown is one of the biggest destinations, they should have made it work with construction.  Alas, I am not the planner.