Cycling in Waterloo Region

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A new manager of transportation planning for the region, Kornel Mucsi:
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...treet.html

My role is to change the philosophy of how we design streets,

Mucsi spent the last 10 years working on making Ottawa more friendly to active transportation and he's looking to do the same in Waterloo Region.

I was reflecting on the time I lived in Ottawa to see if I had anything good to say about the cycling infrastructure and just had a memory pop into my head: The first time I rode the Mackenzie King Bridge without any knowledge of the area. A left hand side bike land, that gets dumped into a left turn where to bike lane disappears. (Follow the bridge east)

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4242941,...92!5m1!1e3

Ottawa is ok to cycle in, but I think it's mostly luck since they have a river and canal to put paths next to right through the city. I lived in the suburbs, but most of the cycling "infrastructure" I came across was just paint on massively overbuilt roads. I never got a chance to use O'Connor but if this guy was involved in that, it's probably a promising sign.