Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

The MUT on Mike Wagner Green is not part of the downtown grid project but has been a project that the city has wanted to work on for a while now, it's still in the planning phases and I don't really expect it to be funded for at least a few years.  It's just shown as part of the planned downtown infrastructure.

For Duke, yes, quite a shame.  For David, I agree in part, to me, it depends a lot on the section and the day...when the park is busy David as a whole is a terrible street, I mean, leaving aside the traffic, there's lots of parked cars, and lots of drivers distracted by trying to find a space and getting angry about not finding one. I would hate to live there, and if the people in that neighbourhood had any sense that would be their top priority, instead of killing sidewalks in the park.

But on week days, Duke west of Courtland is reasonably pleasant, I ride on it with my little one with no fear.  East of Courtland...definitely a different story...but it also depends on when you tried it, usually I find that the Courtland intersection is unpleasant but otherwise, it's pretty tolerable, only the occasional aggressive driver, but when something is closed on Queen...as it was several times this summer, all the traffic is routed on David and it was truely dangerous. 

That short piece of MUT would be very, very nice to have.

But ... intersection of Duke and Courtland? Maybe some other street? Benton and Courtland?

Ugh...sorry, David and Courtland...