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RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 12-11-2017 (12-11-2017, 12:37 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-11-2017, 12:18 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I certainly agree, but staff often don't. Staff have a strong resistance to installing safe ped/cyclist crossings at the regional level. Lol, good luck . Frankly, this at some point this boils down to structural issues, the city want's a crossing, the region doesn't. Regional rd. meet city rd. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - tomh009 - 12-11-2017 If you think it's better to just give up, I'll take your advice on that. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 12-11-2017 (12-11-2017, 01:02 PM)tomh009 Wrote: If you think it's better to just give up, I'll take your advice on that. This year has been demoralizing. Don't give up on my account, but I'm personally very tired of seeing easy wins being impossible to fix. It is most demoralizing to see brand new infrastructure being built that's completely inadequate. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 12-12-2017 For the record, I've heard from city staff that the King St. bike lanes won't be open until they are finished sometime next year. As of now, they are not being maintained either. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Viewfromthe42 - 12-12-2017 Just promise me that they won't be maintained as "temporary" parallel parking. They should be blocked off to all users. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - creative - 12-12-2017 The fact that they have not been in any rush to put up no parking signs or choosing to enforce no parking would lead me to believe that this is a gift to area retailers for the holiday shopping season. No proof just an opinion. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 12-14-2017 Just observed no parking signs on the uptown not-bike lanes, just barely visible between parked cars. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Viewfromthe42 - 12-14-2017 This *does* mean that bylaw can now ticket. But if no one can park *or* bike there, the more useful thing would be to put at least traffic cones or the A-frame blockers that they use to keep parallel parking clear before they setup for a festival. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Canard - 12-14-2017 Today I had the luxury of going for a bike ride mid-day, and noticed that a lot of the Bike Lanes weren't ploughed. I posed the question:
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RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 12-14-2017 (12-14-2017, 07:45 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: This *does* mean that bylaw can now ticket. But if no one can park *or* bike there, the more useful thing would be to put at least traffic cones or the A-frame blockers that they use to keep parallel parking clear before they setup for a festival. Yes, that would be useful. I do wonder if bylaw will ticket, I'm going to guess the policy will be not, but we will see. As for snow removal in bike lanes, the short answer is "no" but the city claims yes (as possible) at every turn (as the tweet shows). The long answer is frequently cars and buses drive in the bike lanes meaning that it occasionally gets cleared for short segments, which means cars will harass you if you don't ride in them, even though they're intermittent, which means on road bike lanes make cycling worse in the winter, I avoid them at all costs in the winter. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Canard - 12-15-2017 Thinking about getting studded tires. Any recommendations or things to watch out for? My bike uses 700x35c tires. I bought some knobbier tires last winter which made a huge difference, but I want more. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - tomh009 - 12-15-2017 (12-15-2017, 10:45 AM)Canard Wrote: Thinking about getting studded tires. Any recommendations or things to watch out for? My bike uses 700x35c tires. I bought some knobbier tires last winter which made a huge difference, but I want more. Studded tires only help on ice. On bare pavement they are worse than studless tires. Is ice your main concern? RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Canard - 12-15-2017 No, unploughed packed snow is my concern. So when there’s 1cm of packed snow that is as slick as ice in want the studs to dig into that. Will that not work? What is your experience with studded winter tires? RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Pheidippides - 12-15-2017 Lower tire pressure and/or wider tires are probably best for that situation. RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - razzie13 - 12-16-2017 Not sure if it's been mentioned, but the bicycle signals at Manitou and Wabanaki have been removed. |