ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[Canard]

You are talking about these possibilities of things "wandering onto the tracks" like it's some issue specific to Kitchener-Waterloo and somehow magically doesn't occur anywhere else.  How many dozens (hundreds!) of cities around the world have Light Rail systems?  Do they all have 6' fences running the length of the corridors?  No!  It's a non-issue.  You can stand at a platform edge on any subway system in the world (without platform screen doors, which is the majority of them) and stand as close as you want from a train blasting into the station on a crowded platform at 80 km/h.  Millions of people do this every day.  You can stick your face in the infeed comb of an escalator if you want but nobody.  You can jump in front of a bus for kicks if you so desire.  Lick an electrical outlet.  This is ridiculous.  If we guarded every potential hazard that existed anywhere, the world would be completely locked out from anyone going anywhere or doing anything.