General Road and Highway Discussion

[plam]

What bugs me about this response is that it's untrue.  East Ave. is not a parallel road, nor does it continue as far south as Weber.

Equivalent parallel roads would be King, Charles, Courtland, all of which have been or are being rebuilt, and none of them are getting bike infrastructure.

I think King (from Cedar to Ottawa or so, at least) would be the best alternative.  It's central, there is available width, and the traffic volumes are far smaller than on Weber.  If we push for an East-West cycling route, that would be the one to push for.

Charles is constrained by the LRT and Courtland has a fair bit of traffic as well. 

Are either King or Charles due to get sharrows?  I think at least on Charles they should work fairly well.  Or would investing further in the IHT be the best option in the end?

King in downtown Kitchener has had "super sharrows" for a while, although not from Cedar to Ottawa. I think we've seen that King/Cedar has a lot of collisions for some reason, but for the rest of it it doesn't seem too bad to me (but not super awesome, of course). I still kind of prefer Weber, although traffic does move more slowly on King. Around there the IHT is still a bit far, although not as far as at Victoria.