06-22-2021, 09:16 PM
(06-22-2021, 02:12 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: If the region considered people, not cars, the intersection of University and the Laurel Trail would get an F for its LOS and would be the most congested intersection in the city.
If you can find the right way to say this at a delegation you will make heads explode.
Not saying anybody will actually change, but definitely some cognitive dissonance will ensue.
Excellent framing though regardless. My solution is actually to extend the twinned paths all the way up to and across University and even past that up to the next crossing, with the bike path turning across the tracks and ending at Ring Road. That would mean that at University you would have a path, LRT tracks, bike path, and pedestrian path, in that order from west to east, crossing the road. Add in some slight redesign of what is existing (note to engineers, who should not need this pointed out if they really learned anything in school: paths need to get wider at intersections for reasons that are similar although not identical to the reasons why roads have to be at least a bit wider at intersections), and it should be possible to deal with the crowds effectively.