07-06-2015, 09:06 AM
(07-06-2015, 08:53 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Looking at the work going on around Conestoga Mall, it seems that there will be multi-use trails on both the west and east of King St. While biking to work has meant avoiding King and instead taking my chances on Lexington to cross 85, with the trail able to spit me out at Manulife, and this multi-use path able to get me at least to the Conestoga Mall parking lot, perhaps I'll find that it's a great new way to go north. Or the experience of biking through the parking lot to get to Kraus Drive will leave too much to be desired.
That MUT will be a welcome addition, but it doesn't really connect with much unless you're willing to ford the mall parking lot.
If I recall correctly, Kraus ends at Northfield and there's parking lot access through the Williams/Pho Ben Thanh plaza back to Frobisher. Also, if you don't mind the extra detour, the south end of the mall is usually quieter (at least in the morning) and there may still be access to Kingscourt and then to Davenport.
There's also the counter-intuitive path: go up the left side of King, take the pathway cut to Conestogo Road, then up Colby to Northland. But that's a lot of industrial plaza road. Wide and fairly quiet but not exactly pleasant.