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Trails - Printable Version +- Waterloo Region Connected (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com) +-- Forum: Waterloo Region Works (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=14) +--- Forum: Transportation and Infrastructure (https://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=25) +--- Thread: Trails (/showthread.php?tid=378) Pages:
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RE: Trails - nms - 10-17-2023 Just because you build a trail doesn't mean that Mother Nature will let you keep it there. RE: Trails - cherrypark - 10-18-2023 (10-16-2023, 02:50 PM)bravado Wrote:(10-16-2023, 01:08 PM)Acitta Wrote: Engage Kitchener: Walter Bean Trail Improvement Same. I managed to get through there in a cargo bike, saved only by it having full suspension and sacrificing my shins to a few hike-a-bike sections. RE: Trails - Acitta - 10-23-2023 I notice that they are doing some work at the trailhead of the W.R. Good Family Trailway on Otterbein rd. They have put in a couple of concrete platforms and seem to be improving the kayak launch. The trail is closed temporarily. RE: Trails - Acitta - 11-06-2023 This is good news: New pedestrian crossover complete at Mill Run Trail and Speedsville Road A new pedestrian crossover is now complete on Speedsville Road at the Mill Run Trail. The pedestrian crossover improves the trail experience by providing a controlled crossing. Pedestrians have the right-of-way and drivers and cyclists must stop and remain stopped until the crossing is clear. This Speedville Road pedestrian crossover is also equipped with rapid flashing beacons activated by push buttons for enhanced visibility. Cyclists using the pedestrian crossover are required to dismount and walk their bike through the entire crossing. RE: Trails - bravado - 11-06-2023 (11-06-2023, 05:29 PM)Acitta Wrote: \Cyclists using the pedestrian crossover are required to dismount and walk their bike through the entire crossing. Ah nothing makes you feel more valued and totally not a 2nd class citizen than arbitrary nonsense ![]() RE: Trails - Acitta - 11-06-2023 (11-06-2023, 05:53 PM)bravado Wrote:(11-06-2023, 05:29 PM)Acitta Wrote: \Cyclists using the pedestrian crossover are required to dismount and walk their bike through the entire crossing. Fat chance of me ever doing that! RE: Trails - ac3r - 11-07-2023 Just...uh...don't dismount? Some rules aren't meant to be followed lol. RE: Trails - dtkvictim - 11-07-2023 (11-07-2023, 07:16 PM)ac3r Wrote: Just...uh...don't dismount? Some rules aren't meant to be followed lol. Yes, but those rules are also used to justify infrastructure decisions and determine fault. RE: Trails - cherrypark - 11-08-2023 (11-07-2023, 07:16 PM)ac3r Wrote: Just...uh...don't dismount? Some rules aren't meant to be followed lol. Except for the driver's ability to hide behind that pointless stipulation in a lawsuit when they hit you. Rolling at walking or jogging pace? Doesn't matter, not dismounted. RE: Trails - KevinT - 12-05-2023 (11-06-2023, 05:53 PM)bravado Wrote:(11-06-2023, 05:29 PM)Acitta Wrote: Cyclists using the pedestrian crossover are required to dismount and walk their bike through the entire crossing. 100% agreed. I'll slow (or stop as required by traffic) to push the button for the beacon, but won't be hopping off my bike to walk it. RE: Trails - SF22 - 03-19-2024 Anyone with a status update on the Transit Hub/Cherry Park trail that runs along Stewart to Joseph? I know they started installation last year, but the actual link across the railway tracks has to be handled by CN. Also, who else has noticed that the Google satellite view is 6+ years out of date? They're still installing the LRT line in the images. Google Canada is headquartered here, you'd think we could get a current overhead view of our city. RE: Trails - danbrotherston - 03-19-2024 (03-19-2024, 04:00 PM)SF22 Wrote: Anyone with a status update on the Transit Hub/Cherry Park trail that runs along Stewart to Joseph? I know they started installation last year, but the actual link across the railway tracks has to be handled by CN. Google seems to prioritise the recentness of their streetview much more. In the 6 years since the sat view (it might actually be done by airplane given the resolution at a city level) was updated, the streetview has been updated several times. FWIW...when I was at Google, we made a big deal of planning the streetview car coming around to update the footage around the headquarters (for a while we were all out front)...but nobody one it about the aerial view. RE: Trails - KevinL - 03-19-2024 (03-19-2024, 04:00 PM)SF22 Wrote: Also, who else has noticed that the Google satellite view is 6+ years out of date? They're still installing the LRT line in the images. Google Canada is headquartered here, you'd think we could get a current overhead view of our city. I guess that's true of the 'flat' satellite view, if your browser supports 3D mode it's much more up to date. RE: Trails - timio - 03-19-2024 The satellite view over Kitchener recently reversed time recently... The last time I looked it was fall 2018, as denoted by a fresh stump from a dead ash tree I had taken down in the backyard, but now it's back to around the time they were burying the hydro lines along Fairway (and a very much alive ash tree in the backyard.) RE: Trails - nms - 03-19-2024 Where does the satellite view data come from? I assumed that Google was drawing from other resources, private or governmental, that conducted regular aerial surveys in the course of their work. Aside from Google Streetview, I don't think that Google has their own satellites in the sky looking down. I know that Google has the practice of either licensing or buying up old datasets that are set for disposal. I took a quick look at Google Earth and the Kitchener and Waterloo imagery is dated August 10, 2018 (8/10/2018...since everything is green, it's not likely October). St. Jacobs ranges from July 15, 2015 to August 18, 2022. These dates also apply to the western and eastern edges of Waterloo. Elmira gets October 5, 2022 to 'newer'. Cambridge is July 29, 2015 except for the intersection of the Can-Amera Parkway and Franklin Blvd which is May 10, 2023. |