They are now recruiting local residents for a Community Working Group that will help design the master plan

The city of Kitchener is coming up with a Cycling and Trails Master Plan to make it easier for all cyclists to ride through the city.

The first step to developing the plan is to put together a Community Working Group.

Kitchener Active transportation and planning project manager, Darren Kropf, says the community working group will be made up of 15 team members.

"Some of those will be identified stakeholders. We do want to have someone from our school community, someone from our older adults, and some from young people. There will be a few identified stakeholders and then we have five open positions for anyone to apply to. So those are the ones we are really trying to recruit for now."

He says they want to hear from a variety of perspectives.

"We really want to hear from people who maybe don't want to bike right now, whether they have safety concerns or it doesn't fit their lifestyle very well. They should apply to this Community Working Group because those are the people we really want to target with our master plan. We want to get people who aren't really biking to go try it out, whether you do it for fun or for getting around, we want to hear from you."

The group will meet monthly starting in March, for 12-15 months.

You can learn more about the initiatives here.