General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

With respect to the Erb St. construction, I should point out that the current construction is west of Caroline, whereas the Erb/Bridgeport cycling facility proposals are each of Caroline.

This is my point though. Should the work on the east side of Caroline ever be built they will have missed an opportunity to connect the work currently being done on the west side and to connect to the Laurel Trail/central promenade because the lanes being built now don't go all the way to Caroline.

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There is an opportunity to start building an east-west separated cycle track literally right across the width of Waterloo and this would forever be a gap between the two halves.

Sorry, I was being too literal — I thought you were saying that the general plan said the road should be built with bike lanes, but the actual construction was not doing so. Instead you were saying that the piece of road immediately next to the part covered by the general plan should be built to connect to the future bike lanes indicated by the general plan.

You’re definitely right. Weird that it’s apparently just the last few dozen metres west of Caroline St. I can think of an excuse: the former Seagram building is very close to the road on the southwest corner of Erb and Caroline. But given how open the space is on the north side, that’s not even close to being a valid reason (I mean, even if we take as a given that we can’t remove motor vehicle lanes at all, it should still be possible to work in bike lanes).