General University Area Updates and Rumours

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I wouldn't say that Weber and King were parallel. They kind of go in the same direction, yes, but Weber runs more parallel to Albert Street. But then that gets messed up north of Columbia, and Weber becomes the old alignment of Albert Street. I have no idea why.

Albert St was the old alternate route north to St Jacobs from Waterloo (see 'Old Albert St' tucked behind the Albert McCormick Arena). King St existed from Waterloo to St. Jacobs existed in the 1930s. Weber St likely offered the option for a four lane road all the way from Kitchener to North Waterloo without having to worry about the residential neighbourhood around Wilfrid Laurier University and the awkwardness of how Albert St might connect to King St at it's southern end.