Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

I'd rather see them fix the pointlessly wide lanes on Krug to be curb separated bike lanes as well as improved lighting, it's needlessly dark under there. Connects to the downtown grid and opens up the east side too, there's room on River rd for some serious improvements.

I'd like to see Krug improved, but making it a real cycling route would involve heavily restricting traffic on Krug (i.e., breaking the through route for cars). It is impossible to put in bike lanes between East and Lancaster without limiting traffic to one direction (there isn't room for 2 lanes of two way traffic + bike lanes even with all parking removed) unless they also cut down every single mature tree on the street.

The reason Stirling is better is because it costs money instead of political will and money is much cheaper.

It's also the case that Stirling is a better east/west route because it continues past Courtland and also doesn't have a massive hill.

But it's a moot point anyway, Duke St. will never continue south to Stirling, I don't really know how to connect it to the grid there in a fast/efficient manner.