(07-13-2016, 10:31 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Examples like Weber St sidewalk riding takes the old adage a bit further. We don't wait to see people swimming daily across a bridge to decide whether we should build one. We certainly should think of building one when we see people regularly drowning.
Well-put. I mean, in the case of Weber, we know anecdotally that there is demand to use the street, since it’s not uncommon to see cyclists riding on the sidewalk. We have a case here of someone being injured riding on the sidewalk there. It seems appropriate to get a good handle on many people either brave that dangerous street, or break the rules by riding on the sidewalk alongside it, and offer some safe and legal alternative if there is already demand.
Thanks, danbrotherston, for bringing up the Record’s opinion piece. By the way, it sure enough mentions the City of Kitchener's “free valet parking” as one of the “special services” offered to cyclists.