Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

[1] There is a product which allows a city to develop bus stop bypasses as a temporary installation, however because it is a retrofit solution it *does* require more streets space, which probably isn't an option on University without removing lanes (it *might* be possible removing ONLY turn lanes, but that would still be a non-starter I think). Still, it is something that might fit on King St. as we are already removing a lane, so possibly they will try it there, I did raise the existence of this product with the project manager....well...at least the previous one.

Turn lanes definitely should not be removed. It might be OK to remove regular lanes (personally, I would reduce almost all 4-lane roads in the city to 2-lane), but not turn lanes. In fact, in many places the problem is that we have more regular lanes than we need and not enough turn lanes (I’m looking at you, Belmont! And you, Westmount! Don’t make me come over there, Union!).

I totally agree.  Of course you'll find that turn lanes increase safety, where as more through lanes increase throughput.

Guess which one of those things our engineers optimize for.