Walking in Waterloo Region

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Based on my observations (as a driver mostly), I'm SHOCKED it's only once a week.  I feel like I see it almost every time I'm there.

I'm being pretty generous and only counting the times that I personal experience being nearly run down.

Forgive my ignorance, what's an IPS?

I didn't know scrambles had been suggested before, sad they don't consider them.

Wow, I totally said the wrong thing here.  LPI is what I meant, which is a 'leading pedestrian interval' basically, the walk sign comes on before the light turns green, meaning drivers in theory shouldn't be able to force peds to wait.  Of course, since we have right on red, I'll be curious to see how well this actually works.

IPS is something like, intersection pedestrian signal, which is when you have a light at an intersection exclusively for a pedestrian crossing.  The intersection of Seagram and Albert has one:

https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4719796,-...312!8i6656

As for scrambles, they came up at an ATAC meeting, and staff said that they've been asked about them several times but don't feel they're something they want to try.

I know staffers dont change with an election, but this is the kind of transformational change that needs to happen.  We need leaders willing to take a shot and do something new.

Indeed, but a strong regional council will set the direction staff takes, and at a base level *can* replace staff if they aren't doing their jobs.  At least that's my understanding.

I hadn't heard of LPI before either.  Good idea.

Sad that scrambles have been suggested and they've been so blatantly shot down.  Why not try something, what is there to lose?