10-12-2017, 04:51 PM
(10-12-2017, 04:42 PM)Markster Wrote: Re: google maps
On desktop, if you deselect 3D imagery, you get a newer view.
(10-12-2017, 04:29 PM)KevinT Wrote: The problem with the green path is that there's no feasible way to make it safe. Arriving trains are decelerating in this zone and carry a lot of energy into a pedestrian collision, as do departing trains accelerating out. You'd have to spread the tracks even wider apart than they are at the platforms in order to fence in the path, with additional room (wider yet!) to squeeze in a post for the signals and crossing gate where the mid-track path tees into the red line crossing.
Not every desire line can be turned into a practical solution.
Then they should have a crossing to the E5 side at the station itself, and have a parallel path on that side of the rail corridor. There are no corridor constraints here. If the stormwater management pond is in the way, then they can rebuild the bridge that they tore down. There is room to have made a good pedestrian environment.
n.b. Pedestrians are already permitted to walk in the middle of the tracks elsewhere on the line (see approaches to Allen station, one of the few truly sensibly built stations). I know that's not on the rail corridor, but it still represents LRT and pedestrian mixing.
The pathway to E5 on the east side of the tracks was actually in the original plan. I have no idea why it wasn't built.