01-08-2017, 07:18 PM
(01-08-2017, 01:05 PM)Markster Wrote: The pedestrian crossing issue in the Traynor-Vanier neighbourhood is showing some movement! Elizabeth Clarke just posted on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.clark...0923562112
Elizabeth Clarke Wrote:A couple of months back, there was some Facebook discussion about the new ION tracks, and the safety fence running alongside them, cutting off pedestrian access to and from the Traynor neighbourhood.
In fact, the path that was blocked was never a legal (or maintained) access, as it trespassed across a private hydro corridor. However, the discussion served to raise the issue of the need for such an access for the neighbourhood.
The City of Kitchener has now commenced a study and public consultation, and is inviting interested community members to attend a meeting on Saturday January 28th, from 1:00 to 4:00, at the Kingsdale Community Centre, at 80 Wilson Avenue.
The characterization of the crossing as having “trespassed” across the hydro right of way is entirely inappropriate. The corridor had an official path running along it and absolutely no attempt was made to prevent people from walking wherever they wanted in the corridor. There may be a case to be made in some cases that using some of the crossings required trespassing on adjacent properties, although even there that is in many cases not appropriate due to the lack of fencing or signage and in some cases the presence of specifically-constructed gaps in fences.
And don’t get me started on the statement that a crossing would be “unsafe”. In addition to what others have already pointed out, we don’t need people making up bogus safety issues that even the sometimes overly enthusiastic regulators aren’t concerned about (or at least, aren’t concerned about identical situations in other parts of the city).