ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

Fair enough, but they're not really marked like emergency exits - they're just exits...

Thanks for the photo. I had no idea it was actually clearly signed as an exit. Simple practical solution for riders is just to walk along the tracks up to the intersection with Duke St. Shock! Horror! I know, but:

If you’re walking to the stop, you’re facing the LRT traffic and can either see that you’ve just missed it: Wait at the intersection, then proceed down the tracks once it’s gone. Or you don’t see the vehicle: it will stop at the station, so just walk along the tracks to the station and onto the platform.

If you’re walking from the stop, you’ve just gotten off and you can just follow behind the vehicle up to the traffic light. There isn’t another one coming for several minutes.

Of course the real solution is for the block to have been designed slightly differently so that the platform extends into a walkway between the tracks and roadway up to the Duke St. intersection. Tying into another topic of discussion here, such a design probably would have been much easier if the road had been rebuilt with one through lane in each direction, plus appropriate turn lanes. Those two southbound lanes don’t both need to be there and they are taking up space that could allow for the tracks to be further over in order to leave space for said walkway.