Cycling Network Study
Help create a connected cycling network for riders of all ages and abilities
The first round of community engagement is now complete. We’re reviewing your feedback and developing conceptual designs, which will be shared for comment in late Spring 2022.
Have a look at the engagement summary from our first round of engagement.
We’re looking to create a protected cycling network in Guelph that will help all riders feel comfortable biking along key streets in the city while connecting large parts of our community. To help us get started, we’d like your input on what this may look like.
As part of this study, we’ll develop conceptual designs for 13 kilometres of “AAA” (all ages and abilities) protected cycling facilities along three corridors that provide safe, continuous connections for cycling and micro-mobility, such as scooters, to and from community destinations and major transit stops. This study will look at:
- Eramosa Road between Woolwich Street to Victoria Road (Study Area A)
- Gordon Street between Waterloo Avenue to Clair Road (Study Area B*)
- College Avenue between Janefield Avenue to Dundas Lane (Study Area C)

The study objectives are to develop conceptual designs that provide safe, continuous cycling and micro-mobility connections to and from major community destinations, including major transit stops.
Design Options
With contributions from residents and key stakeholders, our design team will review key destinations, connections, constraints, and “pinch-points” along the study area corridors. Five separate design concept options will be prepared for each of the three study areas and an evaluation, and further public engagement will determine which of the options will be recommended for each corridor.
The five options that will be prepared for each corridor include:
Do Nothing: Keep things as they are.
Cycle track: One-way, located outside the curbs of the roadway, often next to the sidewalk, physically separating people on bikes from motor vehicle traffic.
Multi-use path: Two-way shared pedestrian and cycling facility, physically separated from motor vehicle traffic, often located similarly to a sidewalk, but larger to accommodate both pedestrians and cyclists.
Protected bike lane: One-way, on the same level as the roadway, with physical separation between people riding bikes and motor vehicle traffic with materials such as curbs, bollards, or planter boxes.
Hybrid approach: A hybrid of the design options described above is appropriate for the corridor.
Note: The above graphic representations are being used as examples only, to show what physically protected bike facilities can look like. These are not the proposed configurations for any of the roads under study.
*Study Area B has a gap between Lowes and Edinburgh, where the Gordon Street Improvements Environmental Assessment took place. That project involved the design of protected bike facilities, which the Cycling Network Study will tie into. This will create a seamlessly protected cycling facility on Gordon from Downtown to the South End of Guelph.
Have Your Say
Care about road safety in Guelph? Travel along Eramosa, Gordon, and College? Would you like to start cycling or do you want to cycle more, but need more comfortable cycling routes? Are you an avid cyclist with something to say about bike infrastructure design? We need all of your perspectives to help inform the design of a new cycling network for our city.
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