General Township Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

I biked from work once to the St. Jacobs Market and then home with my groceries, it was not a great experience. Perhaps with a bike trailer this would be more realistic for myself, but I don't know how popular cycling to and from the market would be as it is a fair distance for a lot of people to cart food.

Whereas the Kitchener market is centrally located and I used to bike or walk there often to get groceries.

Are you referring to carrying groceries or infrastructure?

Carrying groceries is no issue for an individual like me who has a properly outfitted commuter bike, I just strap on my backs and I can carry several days of groceries without anything more.  If I had put on my touring paniers, I can carry a weeks groceries easily.  Carrying them in a backpack, or worse, on the handlebars, is definitely uncomfortable and treacherous.

As for infrastructure, yes, it is not ideal, and has several glaring issues, and, frankly, is very hard to find, if they were to build a trail (which they are planning to do) it would suddenly become quite easy.

I think the market is well suited too it, for pretty much anyone in the city of Waterloo and North Kitchener, who are near the trail network, it would be a perfectly feasible, and fun, family outing in the spring, summer, and fall.  It really isn't that far.  But they do need to build the trail.