ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

That overpass doesn't look like it will translate into platforms and an LRT connection very easily.

I don't think the design of the transit hub has been finalized (or a developer even chosen).  Although I do remember seeing initial proposals having a staircase and/or elevator to get up there.  I don't think it's too far off from what other cities have, in my experience.  This was my transfer between the Tokyo Haneda monorail and the Yamanote line in Tokyo, for example - Down two escalators, through an intermediate faregate, down another escalator, up another set, and then down a final set of stairs to the platforms.

So going up one staircase to the railway platforms from the LRT platforms is really not so bad!

Edit: Here's the diagram I was thinking of: