Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

The pedestrian crossing for the Laurel Trail next to the Ion across Seagram Drive has been removed, according to this Reddit thread. Apparently car/pedestrian interactions had been causing issues and someone reported it, but the City chose to remove the zebra stripes immediately (presumably pending its upgrade to a 'proper' crosswalk).

The city confirms they are "working with the region" (which means it could be done in between 2 years and 25 years...) to put in a full IPS there.

That seems unnecessary and stupid because it will slow down all trail users as well and create congestion...of course, trail congestion and delay is not a thing the region concerns itself with...frankly, I doubt the engineers at the region even conceive of such a concept...*sigh*....if only there was like...a more light weight way to make such a quiet side street with a trail crossing safe....

I just shake my head....this isn't a technical problem, this is a self inflicted policy problem. I doubt the BC laws are even meaningfully different than our laws...we are choosing an inferior and vastly more expensive solution for no reason.