Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Queens Blvd. and Belmont Ave. will be going from 4 lanes to 3, which is a much safer configuration, which should also hopefully slow traffic to a reasonable speed.

Ironically, this will probably improve traffic flow. Not increase speed, necessarily, but make it flow more smoothly — reduce occurrences of straight-through traffic getting jammed up behind traffic waiting to turn. Which is better — if we’re going to pay for all this road space, we might as well have some of it devoted to actually moving traffic.

That too.  Of course, people (and to a lesser extent our traffic engineers) use a different meaning of "traffic flow"...but this is definitely an advantage.