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It is farther than I'd hoped from where the LRT station is going to be.

The closer station will actually be Block Line. A 700m walk, if I recall correctly.  It's still unfortunately far from both.

Might be 900m. But these are both not inviting streetscapes, I bet. I know that Fairway isn't. 900m could be fine if it was actually walkable.

There's been a (gravel) trail in the Hydro corridor for years.

During ION construction, it's been in various states of closed.  You'll discover that the Fairway end is currently full of construction debris, and has a big "Closed" sign" up. But the rest of the trail is fine.  Eventually they'll clean up the ends, but it will remain gravel.

This is the part of town here I raised a stink about a lack of pedestrian crossings of the tracks:



The plan was that the only access to this trail was from Courtland on the west, and Wilson on the east, and a couple of access points to the north, but nothing south to Fairway.  The City of Kitchener is now working on choosing a location to put in an official mid-block crossing.

Right. A mid-block crossing would help. I guess that more landscaping would be nice as well.