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#2,206
01-27-2020, 09:54 AM
Alright so "end of next week" was last friday and it was still closed this morning. Hopefully it will be open soon?
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01-30-2020, 10:02 AM
The Iron Horse Trail bridge by Victoria Park is open! There had been a sign at West Ave. saying the bridge was closed which was gone this morning, so I decided to go down and see. It was a bit icy but so nice to have that link back Smile
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01-30-2020, 11:08 AM
(01-30-2020, 10:02 AM)bpoland Wrote: The Iron Horse Trail bridge by Victoria Park is open!  There had been a sign at West Ave. saying the bridge was closed which was gone this morning, so I decided to go down and see.  It was a bit icy but so nice to have that link back Smile

   
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03-03-2020, 02:15 PM
I will miss the wooden planks on the old bridge, though.
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03-03-2020, 03:07 PM
Yeah, I'll confess to deriving a non-trivial amount of joy from zipping across the wooden plank bridges (mostly due to the glorious racket) on my bike on previous commutes.
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03-03-2020, 03:41 PM
It'll be a lot harder to set this bridge deck on fire though.
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03-03-2020, 08:25 PM
(03-03-2020, 03:41 PM)clasher Wrote: It'll be a lot harder to set this bridge deck on fire though.

I just saw that the City of Waterloo is planning to extend Forwell Trail from King to Weber in 2021. That will close the biggest gap in the Waterloop.

https://www.engagewr.ca/new-forwell-trail-coming
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03-03-2020, 10:50 PM
(03-03-2020, 08:25 PM)jwilliamson Wrote: I just saw that the City of Waterloo is planning to extend Forwell Trail from King to Weber in 2021. That will close the biggest gap in the Waterloop.

https://www.engagewr.ca/new-forwell-trail-coming

Awesome! We’ve been waiting for this for years.
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03-04-2020, 03:05 PM
I've been riding through the Waterloo Inn parking lot for years, nice to see they're making a trail.
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03-19-2020, 09:12 PM
I was cycling along the Schneider Creek Greenway from Manitou and I saw this:             Does anybody know what they are up to here? I also noticed some clearing on the west bank south of Wabanaki.        
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03-20-2020, 02:50 PM
Preliminary work for extending Bleams to Wilson?
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03-20-2020, 03:13 PM
(03-20-2020, 02:50 PM)KevinL Wrote: Preliminary work for extending Bleams to Wilson?
Is that a thing? I find no reference to that on the Regional website.
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03-20-2020, 03:27 PM
It's part of the River Road extension.
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03-20-2020, 04:16 PM
(03-20-2020, 03:27 PM)timio Wrote: It's part of the River Road extension.
I see. The plans show that they are building a bridge across Schneider Creek at that location.
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04-09-2020, 05:35 PM
I got bored today in quarantine so I decided to try out a protected intersection design at Courtland and Stirling. Kept all the existing lanes and added in a two-way trail connection within the existing curbs just by reducing the lane widths down to 3.3m (the recommended width in the Region's design guidelines). Thoughts?


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