Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Ahh, I didn't remember that a bike lane was going in here. From where to where? And construction in the spring?

Yeah, it's easy to miss, it's part of the cycling grid, but it's a pretty insignificant segment. For interest, the city, despite building a cycle lanes on all three sides of my building's fronting streets (yes, we front on 3 streets) failed to send our building the construction notice because our actual street address is on Queen St.

The bike lane will go from Joseph St. to Church St...a grand total of....50 meters. 

So yeah, not a big project, but I completely respect the commitment to making the project an actual connected grid. Basically the point is to get cyclists safely from the cycletrack on Joseph to the bikeway on Church. While it's not my favourite routing (the hill on Church is a PITA), it's actually happening, and being done well, so I have nothing but praise (well, mostly--the timelines are unnecessarily drawn out IMO).

As for construction timelines for this section, my bet would be on spring, but I also didn't expect them to do the retaining wall now, so I could also be wrong, given how small a segment it is, maybe they can do the whole thing in the next few weeks.