(07-28-2016, 06:36 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(07-28-2016, 06:29 PM)MacBerry Wrote: While MUT trails are a great resource for cyclists where appropriate, they constitute undue hazards and a lack of accessibility for others when not meeting the required planning act provisions. MUT are NOT replacements for sidewalks. Placing only a trail down the middle of the road would be in contravention of the Ontario Planning Act, 1990 (Revised) as well as the Official Plan of the City of Waterloo and the Region of Waterloo.
Hmmm, it just occurred to me that if we take what you wrote literally, then all those places on Fischer-Hallman and Weber where the “sidewalk” is actually a MUT are in contravention as well. Not sure what to think of that…
In fact they will be. Right now they are temporary walkways to keep people from walking on the roadway or in the construction area.
The current temporary construction pathways there will have to be replaced with sidewalks that meet the Ontario Building Code and the AODA.