01-06-2017, 10:28 AM
Fundamentally, no one should be on the rapidway, except in designated crossing areas at permissible crossing times.
We accept that there may be some bending of this, with the example given for cars or emergency vehicles to squeeze onto the rapidway to help emergency vehicles get to their destinations more quickly.
I will probably accept that a careful, considerate pedestrian/cyclist should be able to cross in other locations, only when absolutely clear that it is safe to do so. I understand that the experiences of others will never allow themselves to do this, nor to be comfortable with anyone else doing it.
Parking on the tracks will never be acceptable, and is not a good stand-in for pedestrians crossing the tracks. Leaving a permanent obstacle on the tracks is different than a person being on the tracks and immediately able to move off. Even a car using it as a turning lane can't magically hop onto the sidewalk the way a pedestrian or cyclist can (and a driver going on the rapidway, especially if in the wrong direction, adds an unexpected situation for others to recognize and be endangered by, just like a car driving down the Iron Horse Trail).
We accept that there may be some bending of this, with the example given for cars or emergency vehicles to squeeze onto the rapidway to help emergency vehicles get to their destinations more quickly.
I will probably accept that a careful, considerate pedestrian/cyclist should be able to cross in other locations, only when absolutely clear that it is safe to do so. I understand that the experiences of others will never allow themselves to do this, nor to be comfortable with anyone else doing it.
Parking on the tracks will never be acceptable, and is not a good stand-in for pedestrians crossing the tracks. Leaving a permanent obstacle on the tracks is different than a person being on the tracks and immediately able to move off. Even a car using it as a turning lane can't magically hop onto the sidewalk the way a pedestrian or cyclist can (and a driver going on the rapidway, especially if in the wrong direction, adds an unexpected situation for others to recognize and be endangered by, just like a car driving down the Iron Horse Trail).