Walking in Waterloo Region

[ookpik]

Bus stops and crosswalks make no sense, at times, in Waterloo... Yet, there it is, the "Waterloo Inn" stop, implying deliberately in its name that we are intended to jaywalk at this point. I am not sure of the liabilities involved, but this stop, as many others, can only be used as a jaywalking point.

The city of Toronto's lawyers seem to think there is because in situations like this they put up signs that read:



For example where I used to live the closest bus stop to the subway was on a major arterial road. Depending on which side of that road you lived near you either had to cross that road in order to get on the bus to the subway or to get home off the bus. The only concession to pedestrians for crossing the road were those signs. There was not even a concrete island to give people a place to pause as they tried to cross four lanes of heavy traffic going 70 to 80 k/hr (despite a speed limit of 50km/hr.)

But hey, at least the lawyers were happy.