05-05-2020, 06:39 PM
(05-05-2020, 04:47 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Yes, I do agree that they did not do well with bicycling infra; pedestrian was better but they did miss the Traynor crossing, and some of the platform layouts are not conducive to legal pedestrian usage.
But the reality is that (particularly) the cities' and (to a lesser extent) the region's priorities were to minimize vehicular impact: witness the contortions, for example, to protect parking on King St. But this is the reality of municipal politics in North America, and we really shouldn't blame the LRT planning team for those priorities.
If I recall my conversation with the Regional staff correctly, they were actually pushing for no-split through Uptown Waterloo and got overruled by council(s). But they are going to take that experience and use it as ammunition in the Cambridge extension.
We can all collaborate together to make things that are not optimal...