Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

I wonder if this is the first time WRPS has charged a driver for driving in a bike lane in our region's history:

I'm not saying that bylaw doesn't very occasionally ticket vehicles parked in the bike lanes, but Bylaw can only ticket when it is also a no parking zone (and the ticket is a parking ticket), but parking in a bike lane is also a HTA charge, which bylaw cannot issue, only WRPS can, and I suspect it probably hasn't ever done so before.

In any case, this type of thing is illustrative of why protected bike lanes are so important, this type of lawbreaking is so rare by comparison, and so unquestionably illegal, that enforcement actually improves.