Cycling in Waterloo Region

[tomh009]

The reality is that 90% of people still commute using motor vehicle (personal car or transit), so we still need some arterial roads.  And between the Expressway and Westmount Rd, Weber St is really the only one.

I'd rather spend the money improving cycling infrastructure on a route parallel to Weber, but not on the same roadway.

An arterial road doesn't have to be 4 lanes.  I haven't bothered to look up traffic counts for the whole thing, but north of Parkside, where I was looking for the future bike lane project, there is no traffic justification for four lanes, its entirely political.

North of Parkside (which I think is not in the study area, or is it?) is indeed quite different than what it is up to, say, King St N.  My suggestions relate really to the rest of Weber St, through urban Kitchener and Waterloo, not the northernmost part.