08-02-2016, 09:56 PM
1) re: the tram sign; if it is a prototype, why bother to physically make it and mount it before tweeting an image out to get feedback?
2) re: the pedestrian crossings along the hydro corridor; the project agreement says that all the "crossings" are to be closed by the project co. I don't think this approach will work and kind of creates a bit of a "food desert" for some. Humans are lazy (or perhaps efficient) and will take the path of least resistance, especially when it comes to basic needs, shelter, food, employment, the former in abundance along Traynor (and the surrounding neighbourhood) and the latter two are in abundance along Fairway. People will cross the tracks so why not take the harm reduction approach and make the crossings as simple and safe as possible so that the majority of people are crossing at predictable locations and predictable times. I was running along that stretch of the hydro corridor very early Sunday morning and saw at people hopping fences and crossing the tracks at two different places already (I also noted one former opening/gap in the otherwise unbroken fence, but I think will end up being a locked gate for maintenance purposes and not a formal crossing).
2) re: the pedestrian crossings along the hydro corridor; the project agreement says that all the "crossings" are to be closed by the project co. I don't think this approach will work and kind of creates a bit of a "food desert" for some. Humans are lazy (or perhaps efficient) and will take the path of least resistance, especially when it comes to basic needs, shelter, food, employment, the former in abundance along Traynor (and the surrounding neighbourhood) and the latter two are in abundance along Fairway. People will cross the tracks so why not take the harm reduction approach and make the crossings as simple and safe as possible so that the majority of people are crossing at predictable locations and predictable times. I was running along that stretch of the hydro corridor very early Sunday morning and saw at people hopping fences and crossing the tracks at two different places already (I also noted one former opening/gap in the otherwise unbroken fence, but I think will end up being a locked gate for maintenance purposes and not a formal crossing).
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.