Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

And indeed, travelling east from the Wellington St. interchange, one travels along Shirley Ave. and Bingemans Centre Dr. on a road that is amply sufficient to handle traffic to Guelph, at least as far as the bend where it turns across the tracks and meets Victoria St. But we’ve discussed this extensively just recently.

I was talking much earlier, when Wellington St was last rebuilt -- maybe in the 70s? While it turns out not to be the right thing for today's world, the vision back then was to have high-capacity arterials in and out of the city core. King St E at the expressway, Benton St and Wellington St are all examples of this, I think.

Yes, indeed. I was just making the point that even the non-expressway roads that have already been built would provide a portion of a perfectly good route to Guelph — all that is missing is straightening out the connection from Bingemans Centre to Victoria St. and adding lanes all the way to Guelph.