ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Markster]

On the bright side, the proposal would reduce the Trip of Maximum Inconvenience:
As current
241 Traynor Ave to 560 Fairway (Swiss Chalet): 1.2km  (80m before LRT)
As proposed
Reyburn Ave @ Traynor to 666 fairway (McDonald's): 700m (80m before LRT)

So, I expanded on the comments I made earlier in this thread about Traynor-Vanier!

You can read about it in blog post form!
http://www.tritag.ca/blog/2017/02/16/fai...ng-update/

Here's an excerpt:

Another way to rate a proposal for a crossing is by comparing the Trip of Maximum Inconvenience. Of trips that were being made before ION, which are being the most negatively impacted? We get this by doing the following:

   Choose destinations that are across the ION tracks from each other.
   Note the minimum walking distance between them before ION.
   Note the minimum walking distance between them after ION.
   The Trip of Maximum Inconvenience is the trip that has the biggest difference between the walking distances before and after ION.

Here we test out three trips:

   Reyburn Ave @ Traynor to 666 Fairway (McDonalds)
   241 Traynor Ave to 560 Fairway (Swiss Chalet)
   Balfour Cres to Running Room

And compare them under 4 scenarios:

   Walking distance before ION, using the informal crossings of the Hydro Corridor
   Walking distance after ION, with no mid-block crossings
   Walking distance after ION, with a crossing as proposed at 500-560 Fairway (Swiss Chalet)
   Walking distance after ION, with a crossing at an alternate location of 652 Fairway (Fresh Burrito)