Cycling in Waterloo Region

[ijmorlan]

I got tired of the owner's daughter parking her hummer in our accessible parking spot at the last place I worked at, and made a fake parking ticket.  It was hilarious when she came in screaming and freaking out about it.  We all laughed at her and she never did it again.

There are currently no less than 15 cars parked in the UpTown Waterloo bike lanes today - every available centimetre of bike lane is cars.  Not a single notice.  The City is flat out lying about this.

When do we stage our protest?

https://youtu.be/nGmjYDAiXPE

Awesome video. Should have many more views than it does.

Here’s a relevant protest idea, although I’m not sure I have enough chutzpah to do it: get one person with a bicycle per car parked in the bike lane. Stand in the traffic lane next to where the parked car is. Stay there until the car is gone. If the bike lane is empty, the blockade disappears automatically. Any extra people over and above the number of currently-parked cars wave signs somewhere not on the road.

If the police can be bothered to show up and enforce the rule that one does not stand in a traffic lane blocking traffic, it will be really obvious if they have no interest in ticketing the illegally-parked cars in the bicycle lane while doing so.

This would also illustrate how little space bicycles take up. A protest along these lines would pair a completely full bicycle lane with what just looks like a sparse line of well-spaced people standing in the traffic lane.