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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(08-17-2015, 02:47 PM)timc Wrote: I think you're going to open a can of worms if you start referring to crossing the street mid-block as "jay walking".

I think this is true. But I imagine that MacBerry is right that barriers preventing people from crossing the tracks mid-block might be justified in a few places. I really hope that this wouldn't happen near the cores, though: lower train speeds make it a lot safer to do there, and more barriers would be unsightly and limit mobility.

In many European systems, trams operate in effect in mixed foot and bicycle traffic, with little to no boundaries and barriers to inhibit mobility by the latter two groups. They go slow through city centres where people will be crossing the tracks, and from what I've observed, it works.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by MidTowner - 08-17-2015, 03:00 PM
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