Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-unv...-1.5344392

The National Active Transportation Fund, $400 million to be spent over five years, will nearly quadruple the amount of money Canada spent over the last five years building and upgrading bike paths, pedestrian walkways and bridges, and nature trails.

This is pretty big news and has me thinking how Waterloo Region could best tap into it.

I'd like to see some thought go into adding more pedestrian/cycling overpasses of the expressways and Grand River.

We definitely need more crossings of the highway, it cuts up communities.

Not sure about the Grand River though, there isn't much in the way of commuter options on the other side. The thing that bugs me though, for both, is we have so much low hanging fruit. We're going to spend at least 7 million dollars building a dedicated cycling bridge at Strausburg (and I know it's for transit, but it is going to be publicly presented as a "cycling" spend), for that money, we could probably improve 3-4 existing crossings.

For example, here's a ~1 million dollar plan to make a crossing on Victoria St. that connects all the way to Breslau.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?m...Ij6Jl7etJS&usp=sharing

I've come to realize I'm a fiscal conservative, the fact that we aren't doing this is fiscally irresponsible.