11-26-2018, 01:45 PM
(11-26-2018, 10:24 AM)Canard Wrote:(11-25-2018, 01:48 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Fortunately, I think our citizenry still have enough initiative and sass to ignore such stupidity and exit from the stop in the direction that is convenient for them.
Yeah! That’s the spirit. God forbid pedestrians actually follow the rules like everyone else.
And people wonder why pedestrians get injured or killed around Light Rail...
Another not-on-point response to what I said. In the video the pedestrian is clearly just not watching.
In the places we’re talking about, signs have been installed telling people not to use perfectly viable routes to/from LRT platforms, rather than properly painting them and installing appropriate curb cuts. The same people that watch carefully when they use designed-in accesses will likely also do so when using the unofficial accesses; and the same people who use the unofficial accesses dangerously will probably also cross dangerously at official LRT and non-LRT crossing points.
Minor point: in at least some cases the unofficial accesses are probably narrower than they would have been if they had been designed in. For example, the other access to the stop on Frederick St. is narrow; but still useable by anybody who exercises due care, caution, and awareness of the situation. In other cases, there is nothing wrong with the unofficial accesses at all other than that they are unofficial. For example, the north end of the Grand River stop.
God forbid authorities actually do their job properly like everyone else.
Well, OK, most jobs aren’t done “properly” but I think the point stands.