02-17-2017, 12:42 PM
Dan, to be clear, I am not supportive of the trail being closed and the new location being blocked by a trailer. But someone needs to make an issue of the new routing being unavailable. Maybe someone could ask the question of the city on Twitter? (I don't have a Twitter user ID ...) Complaining here does not resolve the issue.
I found 2015 traffic numbers: the Waterloo end has ~800 users/day in the summer and ~300/day in the winter.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5692...-waterloo/
My other issue is that taylorbb compared the trail closure to a major road closure: the latter would affect tens of thousands of people per day. Regardless of relative value of bicyclists or motorists, a lot more people would be inconvenienced by a major road closure.
I found 2015 traffic numbers: the Waterloo end has ~800 users/day in the summer and ~300/day in the winter.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5692...-waterloo/
My other issue is that taylorbb compared the trail closure to a major road closure: the latter would affect tens of thousands of people per day. Regardless of relative value of bicyclists or motorists, a lot more people would be inconvenienced by a major road closure.