Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

The region expanded the scope of the protected cycling lanes pilot project in Waterloo to include a pedestrian signal at the University and Lester intersection.
https://regionofwaterloo.bidsandtenders....#Submitted

This stretch of road constantly has students jaywalking across it, and is where a teenager died back in February. 
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/915...-waterloo/ 
I think it will be well used and significantly cut down on the number of jaywalkers. Hopefully it includes some kind of signal timing with the Uni/Phillip intersection since they are so close to each other.

This is a good thing, but the cycle time must be short, the one at the Laurel trail can be almost 2 minutes sometimes, which is an excessive wait.

Regional engineers could improve the cycle time by reducing the ped walk time (counter-intuitive I know), but it makes sense, peds don't arrive as frequently as cars, it makes sense to send them in groups frequently, but to cycle the light quickly. Of course, our regional engineers would have to notice that peds aren't cars for this to happen.