Cycling in Waterloo Region

[MidTowner]

All things being equal, one-way streets are bad for street life, safety, and just about anything besides moving cars quickly. I don't want to get hyperbolic, either, because you're right that Erb and Bridgeport are not nearly as bad as some streets. But they could be better, and east of Weber they are wide enough to put in fully-protected bike lanes (or a separated two-way cycle track on one or the other of them) and still have room to widen the sidewalks and still move car traffic well enough. They're residential, so it's true they wouldn't be too lively, but they could be made into a safe cycling corridor.