Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Chris]

Also recently done on Marsland Drive.

I haven't seen Marsland Dr. in a while, I knew it was getting bike lanes, but I was not sure how it would look, but I haven't been there in a while.  But it is in City of Waterloo.

Margaret also isn't a new bike lane, it's been there more than a couple years.

That being said, I went and took a look, there are definitely a lot of problems, but it's nowhere near as bad as Lorraine or Strasburg...which both look like someone doodled on the road, the lanes just squiggle every which way with very little space....the paint on Stirling is far better, with clearly defined parking, and a (too narrow) buffer between parked cars and the bike lane.  The same problematic design, but implementes better.

Dan, you should try riding Margaret. It's sketchy and every couple blocks it feels like the lanes shoot you into traffic to make way for parking. Every time I ride those sections I think I'm going to get rear ended. Then the pedestrian island between the community center and GT gets drivers squeezing you because they can't roll off the throttle and slow down for 3 seconds. (edit, by "take a look" I wasn't sure if you used Google or rode it, I assumed Google)

Lorraine is also pretty gross but I find it less busy and I encounter less large vehicles using that road. (admittedly I've ridden Lorraine way less than Margaret)