General Road and Highway Discussion

[tomh009]

When was the Belmont Ave road diet done? At least from Victoria St to Glasgow St it's now one lane in each direction, plus a centre turning lane, and bike lanes (with plastic bollards) on both sides.

Minor gripe: when these kinds of rearrangements are done separate from paving, the end result is a set of fairly confusing current and former/covered lane markings. Oh well.

It should be fairly clear given the bollards, and eventually the old marks become less prominent.

This was done as part of the Queens and Belmont protected bike lane pilot project https://globalnews.ca/news/5660026/construction-kitchener-bike-lanes/

Ironically, at the beginning when the old lines were very prominet, drivers were driving between the old and new lines in a ~2.2 meter space, and were going quite safely and orderly....its almost as if wide lanes are bad.

The bollards are clear, no question. It's the plethora of former lane markings that makes things less clear, especially in the rain.