Avalon Place Highway 7/8 Multi-Use Trail Crossing

[neonjoe]

Gazing wistfully into the distance looking ahead to this bridge while biking through the unplowed shoulder of Homer Watson between Sterling and Ottawa today. Will fix an awful gap in the network in a big way.

I think the bridge serves other purposes...mostly just to get transit coverage numbers to meet OKRs...

But if we consider only the cycling network, this bridge is an epic waste of money. If we had even an iota of planning and fiscal sense, we could reconfigure Homer Watson north of Ottawa into a two lane road, and we'd have a free three lane wide bike path for our troubles. Then we could spend the 10 million or so we're dumping into an unnecessary bridge into actually expanding the cycling network.

This is why I call people who claim to be fiscal conservatives absolute frauds, because they'd be extremely angry about such a fiscally responsible plan.

Interestingly enough, despite all the city of Kitchener has done for the cycling network, the worst section of Homer Watson is actually under its jurisdiction and is nit a regional road.