Cycling in Waterloo Region

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The wiggling room is in the language: it doesn't actually block creating bike lanes or MUTs, it only blocks the removal of motor vehicle traffic lanes.

When this whole ordeal started I recall there was a process included to get the province's approval to remove lanes. I'm not sure if that was a different bill or, if it was this bill, if that portion of it survived. It may have been meaningless regardless.

nor would the conversion of a parking lane into a bike lane, MUT or wider sidewalk.

I think it generally would, as "parking lanes" are usually motor vehicle lanes, albeit useless ones for driving in.

Despite the other restrictions included, I do wonder if this is only meant to target cycling. Wider sidewalks can be turned into MUTs, bus lanes often permit cyclists (maybe not in Canada but in many parts of the world, and this may be preemptively blocking that approach?), and things like CafeTO often include space for cycling. So it's easy to see this as just an attack on cycling infrastructure and any attempts to bypass the restrictions.