Ride with Candidates: Janice Moore – Waterloo Ward 2

For the 2026 municipal elections, CycleWR volunteers have been taking municipal electoral candidates on bike rides to show off the best and worst of the cycling infrastructure in their ward/city/region.

Below is a summary written by CycleWR volunteer Tino Fernandes on their meetup with municipal candidate for Waterloo Ward 2, Janice Moore. Janice was unable to ride her bike due to a recent knee injury, so they decided to meet at a nearby cafe.

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So today I met with Janice Moore candidate for Ward 2, she was not able to ride her bike due to a recent knee injury so we met at the new Eclair Cafe on Erb and Erbsville intersection and discussed her election platform.

Janice is an avid supporter of alternative transportation like bikes and micro-mobility and following are the points we discussed:

1. Janice believes that there are too many by-laws in the City and as such they are not able to enforce them, her objective is to reduce the number of by-laws and effectively enforce them.
2. She also was concerned about the speed and the number of kids using micro-mobility like eScooters and not wearing helmets. She would like to have stricter by-laws on their usage of bike lanes, I did raise the issue that eBikes are  important to the older population in the City as it enables the older folks to get out and ride around which was great for the mental and physical health, so any new legislation should not impact this and other groups that would otherwise not go out.
3. We also talked about the sidewalks being cleared in winter and the city needing to enforce residents to clear them, not only for cyclists but also for parents with strollers or folks going for walks. I asked if she would push the city for a proposal like the City of Guelph has, where the city clears all the sidewalks and it is not left to individuals to do this.  She was happy to consider this as an option.
4. We also talked about roads where there are no bike lanes or we have speeding cars like Brandenburg Blvd, would she consider pushing for bikes lanes and also looking at options for slowing down traffic in areas where there are kids playing.
5. We also talked about the roundabouts and how expensive(waste of money), unsafe and unnecessary these are within the City. We understand this is a strategy by the Region but as cyclists and active transportation users we know how dangerous these are.
6. One key comment that Janice made was that bike lanes don’t need to always be on the side of the roads and they can be paths independent of roads, which I fully agree with great examples are found in Toronto and Kitchener.
7. We agreed that the City and Region culture needs to change from Vehicle focused to Active/Micro Mobility Transportation as the City grows.

Janice is a proponent of Active/Micro Mobility Transportation and also has been involved with Tritag.ca that advocates for encouraging active transportation and public transportation. Having Janice to be part of the City of Waterloo advocating for Active Transportation would definitely be an advantage to this community.