Cycling in Waterloo Region

[Acitta]

Yeah, in cities it exists in. Since I don't drive I never experience it, which is great. I take the bus and train everywhere and I can't ever remember my bus getting caught up in traffic for more than a minute or two. A few times I've been a passenger in cars on that bad Highway 8 stretch that runs parallel to Kingsway Drive, though that only seems to be bad during rush hour. We're lucky to have good roads here.

Now, if we could only improve the cycling infrastructure here... While I don't regularly live in Waterloo Region (although own a house here), I am here very often. I never, ever feel safe biking anywhere that I happen to need to go. The only time I get my bike out is to do occasional trips to a store or for some exercise on trails. But to get downtown from my house? Hell naw, it's suicidal. It's great we're improving it in certain places, but I want to see it expanded all over the city. It'd be so easy to do.

Where is your house? I have ridden all over the Region for the last 20 years, and there are very few places that I feel unsafe. Having cycled in Montreal in the '70s, Toronto and York Region in the 70s, 80s and 90s, Waterloo Region is the best of all (though Montreal has improved considerably since I lived there).