Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

Sadly no plans to include any trails AFAIK.  Worth remembering about the LRT is it saw most of the scoping and planning nearly 10 years ago, before we really had modern bike plans.  It's still an unfortunate oversight, and I think long term there is some wish for some infrastructure, but given that the road has been rebuilt, it'll be a while.

Most of the detail design work was done in 2012/2013, and there were definitely bike plans by then.
Ultimately, it just wasn't a priority.  

Detail design work != scoping.  I don't pretend to be an expert on engineering or planning, but I imagine if the original plan didn't have it as a requirement, it's much harder to add during detailed design work.  Yes, if it was a high enough priority it could have been, but that priority needs to be much higher than it would need to be when the project was originally defined.