12-09-2017, 08:11 PM
(12-09-2017, 02:26 PM)MidTowner Wrote: I don't think a link to this article from the Record about potential pilot segregated bike lanes in Waterloo was posted yet.
plam was good enough to alert us to the consultation sessions this coming Tuesday and Thursday. The article includes a map of the study area, which is the universities and Uptown, more-or-less, and a bit further east. I think the pilot lanes' usage will inevitably be hampered by the fact that they will be short. Apparently there is only funding for five kilometres of lanes. My first thought was that Weber and University should get them, but who knows.
I don't think the initial consultation is asking where the lanes should go: it seems to be focussing on the selection of Uptown Waterloo. Anyway, I plan to be there on Tuesday.
5km is pretty short. The highest-traffic streets are King, Weber and University.
- University has non-segregated bike lanes, which would be easier to implement segregation on than King or Weber.
- I ride on Weber pretty often. It's pretty poor in the study area. It's also kind of parallel to Spur Line, so maybe it doesn't make the most sense.
- King could be logical, if only we had segregated bike lanes in Uptown (ha, ha) to connect with.
I was through Uptown today. The thing that has been confusing me is that on the east side, people are good about not parking in the bike lane because there is parking space. I remember that there was discussion about there being no parking on the west side due to the bike lane. I look forward to enforcement; people really shouldn't be parking there!