Walking in Waterloo Region

[MidTowner]

I don't think any of our roundabouts are in highly walkable/pedestrian-friendly areas.  The Homer Watson/Block Line roundabout sees a fair bit of pedestrian traffic, but that's because of the nearby school.

For my own understanding, is the implication here that students or young people or whoever are less important than other types of people on foot? You just identified the Homer Watson/Block Line intersection as heavily used by people on foot, but then discounted that fact because it's a result of the school. Why would the source of the traffic matter?

I also disagree about Ira Needles. I won't claim that there's a lot of people walking there, but there are some, and we should want it to be easier for people to walk here, not even more difficult.

This setup should include a (pedestrian) fence for the 30m distance from the roundabout to the crossover to discourage exactly that.

The crossover will inconvenience cars, too, yet we would not accept drivers ignoring it.  Why should we accept pedestrians ignoring it?

Actually, we accept drivers breaking a number of different rules.