Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

Heh...my mom sent me this this morning.

You're putting a lot of assumptions on the people who designed and installed the block. They'd have to a) know there is a trail, b) know it's used, c) care d) be paid to care. Fundamentally, I'm beginning to realize that the reason why we have such bad bike infra is because lots of people are employed to care about cars...and few to no people are employed to care about peds or bicycles.

I'm used to working in a flexible user focused environment, but most people don't work like that, they work in a place with OKRs and that is the ONLY focus. They don't get ahead by questioning OKRs...only by achieving them. It's not a government thing...

I actually thought of you when I read it and that’s why I posted it here

I don’t know about the specific people who designed the new infrastructure; if it’s somebody’s job to design the block (how big, where the mounting bolts should go) it isn’t necessarily their job to investigate the environment. But it definitely is the job of the overall project team to be aware of the environment.

This isn’t that different from the Traynor fiasco, where I agree there are many people involved in the project who can’t reasonably be blamed, but overall the project and some of its leaders definitely did fail and should have done better.