02-19-2018, 10:52 AM
(02-19-2018, 08:02 AM)Canard Wrote: I don’t think I’d ever noticed that directions were actually signposted at the East end of the Frederick platform! That’s crazy! And, as Dan points out, it’s a bad design just inviting people to misbehave...
Urban sections of tramways and light rail get a bit fuzzy sometimes when it comes to where you’re allowed to walk and where you’re not.
I find it interesting that you think of it as bad signage encouraging people to misbehave. Why not think of it as bad design (of the curbs and pavement markings) making it inconvenient to use the authorized and signed routes? (also making it unclear where the authorized route actually is) The problem here (unlike at the north end of the Willis Way platform, but similar to the north end of the GRH platform) is that the design is self-contradictory, and therefore definitely wrong, regardless of what one thinks about where platform accesses should be.