Cycling in Waterloo Region

[panamaniac]

“Total to date” was the wrong term for them to use (there isn’t even an ‘as at’ date on the sign). They just mean “Total.”

But very interesting! Three hundred users a day is nothing to sneeze at, and if we assume that some people only bike or walk to their jobs (or elsewhere) some days of the week, that’s a lot of people that trail is serving. It would be really neat to see daily and hourly breakdowns of the counts, to better see how many are commuters and other types of users there are.

There is a huge tree down on the Cambridge/Paris Rail Trail. Who do you think I should contact to let them know? It's at kilometre marker 73.7 (3.3 km from the Cambridge terminus).

Edit - found the number: (519) 740-4681. Will leave it here for future in case anyone needs it!

Re: Turning, while driving I do exactly what pana does. I admittedly was really bad at not looking over my right shoulder when turning right. Now I always take a quick glance as my second-last step when turning.

When riding, I always merge into traffic and take my place and wait patiently.. No matter how annoying (ie, Caroline SB at William at rush hour...). Never ride up the side unless there's a segregated bike lane, but am alwaye mindful of what cars 1-3 are intending to do (eye contact, watching turn signals).

I just had the experience this afternoon, turning right from Queen St S onto King St E, to have a guy on a bike pass out in front of me to ride through the crosswalk.  He was moving fast enough that I really couldn't say whether he was riding on the road or on the sidewalk.  I had been stopped for the light so was not moving quickly and stopped a couple of feet away from him, but it did give me a scare and has me wondering whether I need to be on the lookout for these turkeys more than I have in the past.   I absolutely would not have occurred to me to look back to see if a bike were coming - there were no pedestrians waiting to cross and that was good enough for me.