Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

No plan yet, the city would like there to be bicycle infra, knowing the region, bike infra is probably on the table, I can see them proposing a mediocre 3 lane road with painted bike lanes.

I also don't like the idea of a center boulevard, they end up just being dead space, and worse, they necessitate a wider lanes because the region insists on minimum 4.5 meter wide curb to curb distance, and obviously it's just a wide road to begin with.

I have a different proposal.

https://youtu.be/rygMdouzi_I

How did you envision the bus stop working? Pax would cross either the road or the cycle path to get to the stop? Does the bus actually stop in the parking lane, or only the pax would be there, with the bus in the traffic lane?

Also, what's the cause/reason for the squiggle in the cycle path between Arrow Lofts and Arrow 2?

The squiggle is just because the building isn't done right now and the road is partially closed on the sat view, so I more or less guessed where it should be, but it's a bit off there.

As for bus stops, I'm envisioning standard dutch (and others) design, bike lane goes behind the bus stop and shelter, peds cross to the bike lane and wait on the concrete pad (I think there's room for a shelter, although there is not one there now). The buses stop in the traffic lane. GRT prefers this for operations anyway, and traffic is extremely minimal anyway. I think this design can be accomodated throughout, ultimately the road is four lanes wide, and only needs two to handle the extremely low traffic volumes.

   

Further up near King there is another bus stop, but I am envisioning buses stopping on the other side of the LRT station, as they do on Willis Way. I think it can be accomplished without much construction, the bus only needs a short distance to stop, either end would work.