Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

I am definitely experiencing a great waste of time with this.  The most frustrating crossing is Union...where routinely, i.e., often more than once a day, a car will slow down to stop for me, which actually ends up eating up the space I would have been able to cross in, but that crossing I will never cross in, two way traffic is too heavy, and occasionally cars will even move around stopping vehicles.

Well, the problem at Union is that there should be an island. But the planner to whom I suggested that starting mumbling about level two pedestrian crossovers, and acted as if the new legislation allowed them to do stuff they couldn’t before. This is a problematic response on several levels: 1) they didn’t actually think for even a second about whether my idea was actually good; 2) crosswalks have always been a possibility - the recent legislation just clarifies what the signage should look like; 3) what about bicycles, who are not permitted to ride in a crosswalk?