09-20-2019, 09:23 AM
(09-20-2019, 09:08 AM)goggolor Wrote: This is what concerns me about the Caroline Street MUT - in the space of 2-minute ride there are 3 crossings (William, FDB, and Erb) which are crosswalks so technically you're supposed to dismount and walk your bike across. In practice, no one ever does this. But if a cyclist even at a walking pace were to be hit crossing one of these roads, it would be dismissed as "riding in a crosswalk" instead of anyone asking why our cycling infrastructure is so lacking.
The city of Waterloo has managed to put in two cross-rides on the Laurel Trail. That might help if they could figure out how to designate more crossings as cross-rides. Everyone's point still stands about how we expect people on bicycles to do unreasonable things at most intersections though.