Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

No hope for a speed hump at the crossing, I take it?

Sadly, I'm going to guess no...

The region generally won't put speed humps on their roads. I'm not quoting an engineer, but the general publicly stated position is that the purpose Regional roads are intended to carry traffic as quickly and unimpeded as possible, therefore speed humps or traffic calming of any kind would be against that purpose....therefore it makes no sense.

That being said, even if the city was in charge, I wouldn't expect a raised crossing...the city improved the trail to the south, and added a raised crossing on Patricia...it's not without issue, but it's definitely effective at reducing speeds.

They also improved the same crossing on West, but the city felt that there was too much traffic there to put a raised crossing...which really makes me question what they think the purpose of a raised crossing is....to me, Patricia has less traffic than West, therefore a raised crossing is LESS warranted than on West, not more...and Victoria has an order of magnitude more than West....