ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[timc]

Is that not the point of the red light? To stop people from turning?

Street running LRT in Seattle, Portland, and LA manage to survive without crossing bars at all conflict points.

I like the way in the LA line design that where there are two LRT tracks they have installed fence pedestrian barriers to keep mid-block crossing (jay walking?) absolutely minimized. Perhaps this should be something considered in places where there are known jay walking zones along our new LRT. Maybe even in some one track areas such as along the mall in Uptown Waterloo. 

Remember the fiasco of the round-about and people just walking out and then suing the City/Region. Prevention before litigation? IMO a lot of people in Waterloo region don't get to the big city often and navigate a lot of happening as they cross streets.

I think you're going to open a can of worms if you start referring to crossing the street mid-block as "jay walking".