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RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - eh-cun71 - 01-21-2020
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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - timc - 01-21-2020
The Columbia bike lane wasn't cleared when I was driving this morning.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - panamaniac - 01-21-2020
What kind of equipment do they use to clear those lanes?
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - jeffster - 01-21-2020
(01-21-2020, 11:44 AM)panamaniac Wrote: 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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - eh-cun71 - 01-21-2020
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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - jwilliamson - 01-21-2020
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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - robdrimmie - 01-22-2020
Neither side of the brand new bike lanes on Ottawa between Homer Watson and Mill were plowed this morning.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Coke6pk - 01-22-2020
Not sure what the issue is.... look's perfectly cleared for bikes....
Coke
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Bob_McBob - 02-01-2020
A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-collision-between-bicycle-and-vehicle-leads-to-impaired-charges-1.4793398
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Bytor - 02-02-2020
(02-01-2020, 01:19 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-collision-between-bicycle-and-vehicle-leads-to-impaired-charges-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
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 02-02-2020
(02-02-2020, 01:37 PM)Bytor Wrote:(02-01-2020, 01:19 PM)Bob_McBob Wrote: A Cambridge cyclist was struck and killed by an impaired driver last night.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/fatal-collision-between-bicycle-and-vehicle-leads-to-impaired-charges-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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 03-03-2020
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'm not saying that bylaw doesn't very occasionally ticket vehicles parked in the bike lanes, but Bylaw can only ticket when it is also a no parking zone (and the ticket is a parking ticket), but parking in a bike lane is also a HTA charge, which bylaw cannot issue, only WRPS can, and I suspect it probably hasn't ever done so before.
In any case, this type of thing is illustrative of why protected bike lanes are so important, this type of lawbreaking is so rare by comparison, and so unquestionably illegal, that enforcement actually improves.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - robdrimmie - 03-03-2020
(03-03-2020, 02:32 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: 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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - danbrotherston - 03-03-2020
(03-03-2020, 03:09 PM)robdrimmie Wrote:(03-03-2020, 02:32 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: 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.
RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region - Acitta - 03-03-2020
I wish that WRPS would have someone like PEO Erin Urquhart actively ticketing wayward drivers like in Toronto.