Walking (or biking) in this city can be bad. One particularly awful area is South Kitchener/North Cambridge. You basically can't get to Cambridge on foot without walking on the shoulder of busy roads. King Street East forces you to walk on the shoulder, even having to run across the busy on/off ramps of Highway 8. You can avoid that by going down Riverbank/Allendale/Fountain, but those roads also have no sidewalks and it would take you about an hour. When I was in my teens, I had a part time job at Future Shop (where the Value Vilage is), and since I couldn't really afford to bus, I had to rush across busy highway ramps just to get there.
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Walking in Waterloo Region
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02-06-2020, 11:20 AM
If I saw someone walking down that way, my main thought would be to wonder if they needed help ...
03-05-2020, 07:50 PM
"The driver who hit WLU Dean was under the influence when he killed her"
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/987...rier-dean/ This is such a disturbing story. The most frustrating thing to me is that this driver has been involved in 9 police reported collisions in the fifteen years from 2000 to 2015. Even if marijuana was the proximate cause of this collision, I believe that it is clear this person should not have been driving. Anyone with a record like this is not safe on our roads. And if we had road safety standards to keep dangerous drivers off the road, and reasonable alternatives to make it feasible for people to not drive, then this enormous tragedy could have been avoided.
03-05-2020, 10:32 PM
(03-05-2020, 07:50 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Even if marijuana was the proximate cause of this collision, I believe that it is clear this person should not have been driving. Anyone with a record like this is not safe on our roads. And if we had road safety standards to keep dangerous drivers off the road, and reasonable alternatives to make it feasible for people to not drive, then this enormous tragedy could have been avoided. Amen. It’s way too hard to obtain a permanent driving ban. I’m not sure what happens if somebody drives while under a permanent driving ban, but it should be sufficient prison time that it’s impossible to be caught driving under a permanent ban more than a handful of times without being really good at escaping from prison.
03-06-2020, 12:32 PM
Wow, that's crazy! You'd think prison time. It's not like they can ban them more right?
03-06-2020, 01:41 PM
I should add that in general I’m not a big “lock them up and throw away the key” person but for the case of violating a permanent driving ban protecting the public takes precedence over giving the offender another chance or any other reason why we normally try to avoid heavier and heavier punishments. Tough beans. Don’t drive while under a permanent driving ban.
03-07-2020, 05:41 PM
(03-06-2020, 01:41 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I should add that in general I’m not a big “lock them up and throw away the key” person but for the case of violating a permanent driving ban protecting the public takes precedence over giving the offender another chance or any other reason why we normally try to avoid heavier and heavier punishments. Tough beans. Don’t drive while under a permanent driving ban. It would also be fantastic if there were non-driving ways of getting around.
03-07-2020, 05:53 PM
(03-07-2020, 05:41 PM)plam Wrote:(03-06-2020, 01:41 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: I should add that in general I’m not a big “lock them up and throw away the key” person but for the case of violating a permanent driving ban protecting the public takes precedence over giving the offender another chance or any other reason why we normally try to avoid heavier and heavier punishments. Tough beans. Don’t drive while under a permanent driving ban. Maybe somebody can invent something? Maybe some larger rectangular vehicles with more capacity? They could run on the streets, or else on dedicated iron rails? Something like that could move a lot of people without everyone having to drive.
03-07-2020, 07:00 PM
(03-07-2020, 05:53 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-07-2020, 05:41 PM)plam Wrote: It would also be fantastic if there were non-driving ways of getting around. The problem is all the transit in the world doesn't fix broken land use patterns. Bike lanes on the other hand can fix broken land use patterns .
03-14-2020, 08:41 PM
(03-07-2020, 07:00 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(03-07-2020, 05:53 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Maybe somebody can invent something? Maybe some larger rectangular vehicles with more capacity? They could run on the streets, or else on dedicated iron rails? Something like that could move a lot of people without everyone having to drive. Maybe yes -- but only for people who use bicycles. Everyone is potentially able to use transit. Most people can also walk. Bicycling reduces the potential population (less so in Amsterdam, much more so here).
03-14-2020, 09:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-14-2020, 09:21 PM by danbrotherston.)
(03-14-2020, 08:41 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-07-2020, 07:00 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: The problem is all the transit in the world doesn't fix broken land use patterns. Transit does not work for everyone, no more than cycling does. Almost everyone can ride a bike, and if not a traditional bicycle, any one of many types of accessibility bicycles, like trikes, hand cycles, even bicycle adapters for wheelchairs, or even the things you find in the netherlands, that look like tiny cars. There are a small number of people who cannot ride bikes at all, and that's fine, transit also doesn't work for everyone. But transit does not work for everyone either. The fact is, if a service isn't fast and convenient, it isn't a real option. People who live in anti-transit suburbs will never have a realistic transit option. These things aren't black and white. Having cycling as an option provides realistic transportation options to more people than just transit. This isn't controversial.
05-07-2020, 11:54 AM
(02-03-2020, 04:37 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(02-03-2020, 04:14 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: Fatal hit and run in Kitchener They have laid charges against multiple people for this hit and run but are still trying to facilitate the arrest of the driver. Arrests made in connection with February's fatal hit and run https://www.kitchenertoday.com/police-be...un-2331715
05-07-2020, 12:15 PM
So three people helped the perp, who is still on the lamb? Who ARE these people!!??
05-07-2020, 12:56 PM
05-07-2020, 02:24 PM
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