ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

Simple practical solution for riders is just to walk along the tracks up to the intersection with Duke St.

OMG, you just killed Canard.

Yes, that is what the design in encouraging, but in no way should it be allowed as it is; it is basically breeding bad habits.

And you can't always assume the train will move south on one track and north on the other. That's like only looking one direction when crossing a one-way street; the one time you don't bother checking the other direction is the day you get smucked.

Good point. I’ll be interested to see how often they actually run backwards. The system isn’t really set up with crossovers for convenient reverse operation: to get from the normal-running track to the reverse-running track you need to back through a crossover and then continue forward (except along the Waterloo Spur where a facing-points crossover is present just south of Northfield). In San Diego, where they sometimes (at least once, when I was there!) use only a single track to bypass track work, they have crossovers in both directions. Even on the TTC where I understand the signal system doesn’t allow single-track operation almost all of their crossovers are double crossovers.