Walking in Waterloo Region

[Chris]

I should also comment that on one-way streets there is no reason based on traffic flow to restrict the number of pedestrian (or other) crossings — just synchronize them so if they’re all activated traffic on the street still gets a green wave. In fact traffic lights could also be used to enforce any speed desired.

Genius!  A laurel rail crossing could be hooked up with the Peppler crossing.  They always operate in sync, with the Peppler crossing always a few seconds after the Laurel crossing.  
I know that one of the problems at Laurel sometimes, is that when the Peppler crossing activates, the cars start slowing down, potentially closing any incoming gaps that would have been crossable if the cars were at speed.

That's a great idea.

I don't understand why they haven't installed the same pedestrian crossing system they have on Erb at the Laurel Trail on Bridgeport. Crossing Bridgeport can be like crossing a live Nascar track.