Spur Line Trail

[ijmorlan]

Is the trail lit yet? I haven't seen the lights on and I'm curious what the light pollution will look like.

Are the lights planned to be lit from dusk to dawn?

I haven’t seen the lights on yet. However there are now signs up at the William/Willow St. crossing and I suspect probably at other crossings as well warning people to stay off the tracks “active railway” and a smaller sign advising that the trail is closed 23:00-07:00 until July 2017 due to rail operations.

The larger sign is probably unavoidable, even the danger associated with the railway is essentially nil in this location, due both to the train schedule and to the slow speeds at which they move. But the smaller sign raises some questions. First, the trail is deliberately placed a significant distance from the tracks. There is absolutely no safety reason to stay off it while a train goes by, and therefore no legitimate grounds for closing the trail during train times. But the next question is what changes in July 2017? Well, allowing for some variation in the exact date, that is when the LRT is supposed to start operating. But what does that have to do with operations East of King St. where the spur line trail is? The trains will still run through at approximately the same overnight times they do now.

What I want to know is whether the lights will switch off at 23:00. It would be weird to have a perfectly good trail complete with lighting that is officially closed.