Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

For those of you who have used the Ottawa St bike lanes (from Mill to the expressway), how do you find them?

They work, and they're an improvement, but I wish they had just narrowed the road to where the roll curbs are and built wide MUTs away from the road instead. Manitou between Bleams and Homer Watson suffers from the same deficiency, roll curbs are an improvement over paint but they're not truly safe separation.

I agree.

I've said before, but I get a lot of flack for this opinion, I think the roll curbs compromise the design so much, that they are a worse value for money as painted bike lanes. Yes, they are better than painted bike lanes, but they cost considerably more.

But every time I think about this, I just get so angry that our highly paid regional engineers can be so incompetent at their jobs.