12-21-2018, 04:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-21-2018, 04:03 PM by danbrotherston.)
So exciting news! Kitchener's budget is up, and they appear to be making good on their promises of improved cycling infra!
With an investment of 2.5MM in the budget this year, they're well exceeding the CycleWR pledge. Planned improvements include:
- Funding IHT improvements both sections (an acceleration).
- Protected bike lanes on Queen and Benton through a road diet/pilot, no details, but sounds very good with important connections.
- Protected bike lane on Water St. (less useful because of limited connections, but a good demonstration of how protection can fix problematic bike lane parking, I'm looking at you Uptown Waterloo).
This is huge if this happens this year, it would be the biggest improvement in a single year in our history.
This is all done with a 2.3% tax increase for the year, which is very close to inflation.
Budget can be found here: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-service...budget.asp
And the city is looking for input: https://www.engagewr.ca/budget-2019/surv...get-survey
GO GO GO!
With an investment of 2.5MM in the budget this year, they're well exceeding the CycleWR pledge. Planned improvements include:
- Funding IHT improvements both sections (an acceleration).
- Protected bike lanes on Queen and Benton through a road diet/pilot, no details, but sounds very good with important connections.
- Protected bike lane on Water St. (less useful because of limited connections, but a good demonstration of how protection can fix problematic bike lane parking, I'm looking at you Uptown Waterloo).
This is huge if this happens this year, it would be the biggest improvement in a single year in our history.
This is all done with a 2.3% tax increase for the year, which is very close to inflation.
Budget can be found here: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/city-service...budget.asp
And the city is looking for input: https://www.engagewr.ca/budget-2019/surv...get-survey
GO GO GO!