ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ijmorlan]

Up the tracks on the left, then to the right up the texture plate. But not if you have vision issues or mobility device, at that point you just use the King crossing. This and the split station at Willis both seem poorly thought out, especially when you see that it is a north-only exit (based on texture plate), even as the courthouse might represent the biggest draw here...off to the south.

I'm confused though, if this is a north exit only (definitely stupid), why is there an accessibility plate at the south end, and why is that plate directly in front of an inaccessible curb?

There is a similar problem at Grand River Hospital, north end of the platform. What I find weird about these is that the design is contradictory — on one side of the road there is a texture plate, which implies that there is a crossing. But then on the other side there is none, and in some cases no curb cut. Or as here there is a two-sided curb.

By contrast, the design of Willis Way is definitely wrong in that there is no crossing of Caroline south of and near Willis Way (obvious place to put it is at the north end of the station, in line with the track crossing), but it’s consistent — no curb cut on either side of Caroline.

Incidentally there also should be a crossing of Caroline immediately south of Father David Bauer. It’s not a suburban major road location where omitting pedestrian crossings may be appropriate in the interest of smooth traffic flow. But that’s not really an LRT issue.