Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

It is of course absolutely inconceivable that they would close the road to one direction of motor vehicle traffic. That would provide tons of space to maintain pedestrian/bicycle access along Victoria.

However, there are reverse cases, too (such as Weber St E right now), where motor vehicle traffic is completely closed and pedestrian/bicyclist access is maintained.

That is true, there are other examples, like the Fountain St. bridge, where significant effort was used to maintain ped connections, in the case of the Fountain St. bridge this was because the official vehicle detour was up the 401, which obviously prohibits peds and cyclists...

I think the key is that when the agency doing the work makes it a priority, it happens, when it doesn't, it doesn't. It needs to be codified into the rules that it must always be considered and accomodated, it would be nice too if the priority was say...higher than maintaining vehicle traffic...then the city/region needs to enforce these rules.