Cycling Outside Waterloo Region

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Cool post, I will add the Mt. Tremblant area to my plans for eastern Canada.

I was just riding around Manitoulin and the Bruce Peninsula. Highway 6 has a small paved shoulder but it's so cracked that it's like riding cobblestones, and many stretches of the shoulder are full of these weird rumble strips that are as wide as the shoulder but not as deep as the machined kind that run along the 401, these look more like they were rolled in the asphalt. On the island the province is repaving a long stretch of highway 540 but they aren't putting any paved shoulders on it despite it being one of the busier highways. Half of highway 6 on the island also lacks a paved shoulder and it's the busiest half of the highway. North of the island the shoulders along 6 were much nicer when I was through there in 2011. Bruce county does a better job of paving wide shoulders on the county roads, even though the northern part of the county has really low traffic on the side roads.

After riding out in BC and Alberta this summer I've come to think that the MTO just hates paved shoulders. They're better for motorists and road life too, it's not just for cyclists.