Trails

[jamincan]

My point is, the safe option already exists despite being inconvenient. You want to cross mid-block and save time? Then assume the risks.

People who overdose on fentanyl assume the risk and suffer the consequences, and yet we have a public health crisis and are spending lots of resources to address the epidemic. Rightly, I might add. Just because people don't use the designated crossing point, which others have noted isn't even necessarily the safer or safest option, doesn't absolve the city and region of the issue. They could either build a fence and force people to cross at West/Strange and likely piss off most users of the trail in the best case and discourage them from choosing to walk or cycle in the worst case, or they could respond to the desire-line and make it safer and more useable. The best response seems pretty obvious to me.