Cycling in Waterloo Region

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A letter to the editor in The Record.
Winter cyclists need separated bike lanes

Yup.

The University lanes are usable but it feels like they're incompletely cleared; I rode from Westmount through to King two days ago.

The other thing that I was thinking about was Spur Line vs Weber. Weber is usually terrible but I thought I'd chance it yesterday. (It wasn't terrible, not too many people on the roads). It feels shorter for getting to my place which is basically right off Weber. The map says Weber is only 300m shorter. But I think that what's going on is that because Spur Line doesn't have priority I'm always going pretty slowly at intersections. Which might be good practice anyway. But as we've talked about before, there should at least be good raised crossings on Spur Line to make it more obvious that cars should slow down. It feels like there are a lot of intersections.