Cycling in Waterloo Region

[eh-cun71]

The promised snow clearing of the separated bike lane pilot is going well. Taken around 11am yesterday on University - 2 days after the big snowfall. 

I've heard it's been cleared today so I'm going to try and take the bike out today.
   
   

[timc]

The Columbia bike lane wasn't cleared when I was driving this morning.

[panamaniac]

What kind of equipment do they use to clear those lanes?

[jeffster]

What kind of equipment do they use to clear those lanes?

Could be a zero turn Toro with a shovel at the front, or one of those small articulated vehicles.

[eh-cun71]

I saw one clearing king st southbound. I would describe it as an industrial snowblower with a driver's cab on the back. The spout is very tall. It was spraying the snow over the sidewalks and onto the adjacent properties/lawns, not just to the side of the bike lane.

[jwilliamson]

The lane on Erb St. was cleared today, except they didn't bother to clear the connection to the sidewalk at Caroline so counter-flow cyclists had to either ride the wrong way in the traffic lane or dismount and carry their bike through the snow.

[robdrimmie]

Neither side of the brand new bike lanes on Ottawa between Homer Watson and Mill were plowed this morning.

[Coke6pk]

Not sure what the issue is.... look's perfectly cleared for bikes....

   

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Coke

[Bob_McBob]

A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-colli...-1.4793398

[Bytor]

A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-colli...-1.4793398

And the ever assinine Waterlo Regional Record uses a grammatical format that lays the blame on the cyclist:

https://twitter.com/mikeboos/status/1223679500036296704 

[danbrotherston]

A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-colli...-1.4793398

And the ever assinine Waterlo Regional Record uses a grammatical format that lays the blame on the cyclist:

https://twitter.com/mikeboos/status/1223679500036296704 

It's amazing the linguistic hoops they will jump through to absolve the driver and remove them from the situation.

On the other hand, Bravo to the Cambridge times for an accurate headline.

[danbrotherston]

[robdrimmie]

I wonder if this is the first time WRPS has charged a driver for driving in a bike lane in our region's history:

I wonder how much the expired tag was the motivating factor.

[danbrotherston]

I wonder if this is the first time WRPS has charged a driver for driving in a bike lane in our region's history:

I wonder how much the expired tag was the motivating factor.

I assume WRPS doesn’t run the tags of every driver, so presumably they only ran them because of the illegal parking.

[Acitta]

I wish that WRPS would have someone like PEO Erin Urquhart actively ticketing wayward drivers like in Toronto.