Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Wellington St was originally intended to become a major thoroughfare, was it not?

Correct, it was to be the new Highway 7 before the project was expressway-ified.

The interchange was built to be part of the new Highway 7, and still will be I think.

But the section from the interchange to Victoria was reconstructed by the province to be a municipal road, not a freeway, and yet it was reconstructed at standards which basically guarantee traffic speeds will be in excess of 80km/h but was built with a 50km/h limit. Provincial engineers don't know how to build city streets.