04-26-2021, 11:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2021, 11:29 PM by danbrotherston.)
(04-26-2021, 03:00 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(04-26-2021, 01:24 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Indeed, or both places...seem like they're begrudingly correcting a mistake they have opposed for a while.
Not sure if “both places” refers to the Traynor crossing and here, or to putting crossings both where proposed and in line with the LRT track crossing.
If the former, then very much agreed. If the latter, crossings are not needed in both places — the proposed location is under 10m over from the existing crossing and I think even those of us who support much-improved pedestrian mobility can agree that 2 crossings 10m apart is overkill.
Where they should also put a crossing is on the south side of Father David Bauer, and extend the existing pedestrian island on the north side towards the south to discourage the illegal left turn from Father David Bauer onto Caroline.
No, I meant the latter.
First of all, it isn't 10m, it's 30-50 depending on which side of the street you're on. I'm not suggesting two ped crossings within 30 meters of each other obviously, one crossing that is 30m wide would be just fine, as long as it can be actuated from both the platform and from the corner of Willis way.
There's no reason to make pedestrians walk an extra 100 meters out of their way to activate a crossing if they're going onto FDB just to activate a crossing, and it costs nothing but a length of wire.
But honestly, I fully expect they will not directly access the platform, then the engineers will be shocked, SHOCKED I say when peds CONTINUE to ignore their idiotic infra.
Extending the island is a good idea though...I have very cynical opinions about why it wasn't done in the first place.