I was cleaning out some old video files and I came across this gem from Associate Professor Brian Doucet at the UofW School of Planning (bmdoucet on the bad site).

This was taken in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada the city where I went to University.

It boggles my mind that Canadian traffic engineering can be so broken that something like this gets built.

How did nobody along the path to getting this created say, "why are we building it like this when you'd have to be fucking insane to cycle here?"

@notjustbikes What... The... FUCK?!?

@notjustbikes tbh, I suspect that this is not an accident or stupidity. It is precisely *because* you would have to be insane to cycle here. So they achieve their stated goal of including a cycle lane, while making sure it doesn't achieve the underlying intended goal of stimulating cycling. Win-win.
The politicians should have been more precise in stating their requirements.

@jfmezei No, actually, it's shit. I've visited this area.

There are dozens of examples of better and safer designs for highway junctions with cycling paths.

You Canadians need to stop being apologists for this kind of dangerous garbage. This is exactly why your cities are so terible.

@notjustbikes If you're cycling along at the same speed as traffic, this shouldn't be much of a problem at all.

@notjustbikes
We also got something like this in Bonn, Germany. It's quite scary.

@martin_ueding This is bad, but it is nowhere near as dangerous as the Canadian example.

This is not a highway entrance it's an urban area. The speed limit is lower, the lane on the right is primarily for buses, there will be much fewer heavy trucks, and the speed differential between cyclists and drivers is more comparable.

@uxmark
That bicycle lane is obviously better than Northfield Drive, but it's still not designed properly.

In particular, cyclists in this lane would be very susceptible to right hooks and being hit by drivers exiting driveways.

And of course you're just on your own at any intersections.

It's so sad that even today, Canadian cities are building bike lanes like this that aren't up to international standards.

You could not pay me enough to ride bike in K/W.

@rjohnston @notjustbikes This is why people keep getting killed.