ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

People on foot are supposed to use the street? Really?

I've been waiting so long for King to reopen to foot traffic (because of where I live, and the Waterloo closure, my walk downtown is a fair bit longer right now), I was expecting some sort of ribbon-cutting when the sidewalk was accessible again. Of course, I should have known that the sidewalks would probably not be finished even when car traffic was allowed. It took weeks for the last pernicious gaps in the sidewalk elsewhere on King to be closed.

Bottom line, though: people on foot are legally allowed down King, and can safely do it? Even if they have to use the street?

So it seems, although I haven’t seen a photo showing it clearly open. Based on my last visit there, when I walked through without passing any sort of barrier or sign, but concluded upon close inspection that it was most likely not meant to be open, opening it to pedestrian traffic was a simple matter of picking a lane and putting in a line of bollards. So I think the project team realized this and wisely decided to make official what everybody was already doing. Kudos for realizing that it is more important to open to pedestrians than to motor vehicles.