Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

This isn’t Waterloo Region but I didn’t see a general cycling board (sorry if I missed it):

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/the-fix...trail.html

Note that it’s required for safety that the big concrete block be on the other side of the barrier from the motor vehicles, but not required for safety that another barrier prevent cyclists from crashing or falling into the block, nor is it required that the path be moved over prior to installation of the block. It’s not even required to put it as close as possible to the barrier to minimize the amount of width taken away from the path.

Heh...my mom sent me this this morning.

You're putting a lot of assumptions on the people who designed and installed the block. They'd have to a) know there is a trail, b) know it's used, c) care d) be paid to care. Fundamentally, I'm beginning to realize that the reason why we have such bad bike infra is because lots of people are employed to care about cars...and few to no people are employed to care about peds or bicycles.

I'm used to working in a flexible user focused environment, but most people don't work like that, they work in a place with OKRs and that is the ONLY focus. They don't get ahead by questioning OKRs...only by achieving them. It's not a government thing...