10-12-2017, 08:23 PM
(10-12-2017, 02:05 PM)Markster Wrote:(10-12-2017, 01:36 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Along the tracks, or just crossing carelessly?
I’m just curious because I can’t think of a single trip where the “best” route (ignoring rail safety and the rough terrain) involves walking along the tracks through campus. The only future exception is going between the station platform and E5, where the shorter route (and the one that should have been implemented in the plan) involves walking between the two tracks from the platform to the crossing in front of E5.
The route from UW Station to the UW Plaza (going in front of E5) is missing a direct (and level) pedestrian link, and it is not surprising at all that people would walk on the tracks in that area.
Thanks, that makes sense. I hadn’t thought of the bit between E5 crossing and University Plaza.
Of course the solution there is to remove the useless pile of dirt in front of E5 and build a proper flat entrance to E5, and use some of the space to put a path on the east side of the tracks. I can’t believe they took a perfectly flat parking lot and built an entrance that requires wheelchair users (and everybody else) to climb an entire floor by stairs or ramp just to reach the entrance. Utterly, utterly incompetent, and shouldn’t even have been permitted under the AODA. Probably the drafters of the AODA didn’t anticipate that an architect would be so stupid as to build a huge barrier so didn’t explicitly forbid it.