Cycling in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

There are days I call in 10 vehicles in bike Lanes. 

But never in Waterloo.  Many days it takes me almost 30 minutes to get ahold of bylaw.  Waterloo has by far the worst customer service in the region for these issues.

I'm not a registered user, but it seems like you might be able to submit complaints via the City of Waterloo website:
https://mypermits.waterloo.ca:8443/Publi.../index.jsp

"You can also raise a by-law concern about parking, noise, property standards, or lot maintenance"

I was tempted to test it out this week. There was a truck parked in the Park St bike lane near William for what seemed like the entire week.


My first thought when reading the article was, "could they use the cameras to monitor snow clearing on sidewalks?" If it can see a valve on a car tire while moving surely it could be taught to detected pavement from snow?


For those interested you can actually see the types of parking infractions in the open data:
https://rowopendata-rmw.opendata.arcgis....nfractions

Unfortunately it isn't a spatial/georeferenced file (other than a general location field in the dataset) - that would be interesting to look at. I would suspect if you mapped it most of the infractions are in the uptown area. I see tonnes of people in the burbs violating all manner of parking by-laws, but unlike the uptown area, rarely see a ticket.

Does anyone have a map of the 3 by-law patrol zones in Waterloo reference in the article?

I too would like to see that map.

That's a very interesting dataset.  I had no idea it was public.

The most interesting thing in that dataset, out of 300,000 infractions...ONE bike lane violation.

Priorities right?