Cycling in Waterloo Region

[jamincan]

ATAC got a sneak peak at the COVID bike lane pilot survey results:

Something that comes as absolutely no surprise is that Geoff Lorentz is upset about the survey. No substantive objections, he's just upset.

I don't think that's a fair characterization:

Regional Councillor Geoff Lorentz did express dissatisfaction with both the amount of responses gathered by the survey, as well as the questions being asked of respondents. Lorentz noted that, at no point, were respondents asked for their perspective on whether or not the pilot project was worth nearly half a million dollars, as he said the way in which the region had rolled out the project was ‘bass-ackward’.

“We do these online surveys, and we get such a poor turnout – even for budget, we get maybe 1,000 people or 1,500 people making a comment out of 630,000 residents that live in the region.” Said Lorentz. “I hope we aren’t extrapolating this and saying that the 738 people that participated (…) creates an extrapolation where we say, really it’s 70,000 or 80,000.”

“I understand this stuff looks pretty, and it may make some sense to somebody – but I certainly hope that the takeaway is not that this has been a great success and we’re going to keep doing this thing.”