(12-03-2017, 10:38 PM)Markster Wrote: [ -> ] (12-03-2017, 10:22 PM)Square Wrote: [ -> ]John Gazzola wrote in the Kitchener Citizen about a 2nd meeting to discuss the Traynor-Fairway LRT Crossing happened yesterday. Did anyone know about it?, if so, any new things to report? Thank you.
Sam Kamminga has posted some updates on facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/samuel.kamminga...1256972517
It's a really good location they've proposed. I hope they can make it happen soon.
Has the City of Kitchener posted the display boards/consultation docs online anywhere? I wasn't able to make the consultation.
@ij: I was thinking both sides of Fairway Road, plus a formalization of the gravel path on the North side of the LRT alignment. This would serve all purposes. There is no need to have a fourth MUT on the South side of the tracks (behind businesses), because the MUT on the North side of Fairway would cover those movements.
I think about this every time I’m in that area. It’s comlletely insane to me that roads like Fairway and 24 in Cambridge have no provision for cycling at all. There’s a huge grassy swath there just ripe for it. I don’t get it.
(12-04-2017, 10:14 AM)Canard Wrote: [ -> ]@ij: I was thinking both sides of Fairway Road, plus a formalization of the gravel path on the North side of the LRT alignment. This would serve all purposes. There is no need to have a fourth MUT on the South side of the tracks (behind businesses), because the MUT on the North side of Fairway would cover those movements.
I think about this every time I’m in that area. It’s comlletely insane to me that roads like Fairway and 24 in Cambridge have no provision for cycling at all. There’s a huge grassy swath there just ripe for it. I don’t get it.
OK, thanks, I get what you’re saying. Personally I would prefer an MUT immediately south of the tracks to immediately north of Fairway, because one on Fairway would have to cross driveway entrances. But a good trail could be installed in either location, and the Fairway one would have the benefit of being closer to the main entrances of the businesses.
I thought the path on the north side of the LRT was official? I’m pretty confident the path along the hydro right of way was paved before.
Incidentally, I found what that NEAC thing is:
https://www.engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/about/traditions/neac/
I can’t find your post where you included a photo of the Thomas the Tank Engine attached to the LRT fence otherwise I would have replied to that.
(12-04-2017, 10:50 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: [ -> ] (12-04-2017, 10:14 AM)Canard Wrote: [ -> ]@ij: I was thinking both sides of Fairway Road, plus a formalization of the gravel path on the North side of the LRT alignment. This would serve all purposes. There is no need to have a fourth MUT on the South side of the tracks (behind businesses), because the MUT on the North side of Fairway would cover those movements.
I think about this every time I’m in that area. It’s comlletely insane to me that roads like Fairway and 24 in Cambridge have no provision for cycling at all. There’s a huge grassy swath there just ripe for it. I don’t get it.
OK, thanks, I get what you’re saying. Personally I would prefer an MUT immediately south of the tracks to immediately north of Fairway, because one on Fairway would have to cross driveway entrances. But a good trail could be installed in either location, and the Fairway one would have the benefit of being closer to the main entrances of the businesses.
I thought the path on the north side of the LRT was official? I’m pretty confident the path along the hydro right of way was paved before.
Incidentally, I found what that NEAC thing is:
https://www.engsoc.uwaterloo.ca/about/traditions/neac/
I can’t find your post where you included a photo of the Thomas the Tank Engine attached to the LRT fence otherwise I would have replied to that.
The one on the north side is definitely official. It has paved entrances from the neighbourhood in a few places already.
The path on the north side of the ION tracks is part of the plan. It was not paved before, just gravel. I think I recall that it was just going to be gravel again after this. Paving was not going to be part of the ION work.
With the placement of the tracks in the Hydro corridor, a trail on the south side of the tracks would be a tight fit. The tracks are quite close to the property line in places, and are several feet above ground level, meaning there's a steep slope there.
Sorry; I never meant it wasn’t official. I just meant to turn it from a shitty gravel road with water run-off grooves everywhere to an actual paved MUT with some trees and grass (and illumination!).
Media event in Millhaven has been postponed till tomorrow.
About 50% of the time I bike through Waterloo Park, I see one person walking along the tracks. But this takes the cake:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/UWaterloo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UWaterloo</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/Laurier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Laurier</a> you might want to say something about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/railsafety?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#railsafety</a> as this bright lot were walking on the tracks through <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/waterloopark?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#waterloopark</a> this very foggy morning.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UWaterloo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UWaterloo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laurier?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Laurier</a><a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/citywaterloo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@citywaterloo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/570NEWS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@570NEWS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CTVKitchener?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CTVKitchener</a> <a href="https://t.co/peu3L3Mej8">pic.twitter.com/peu3L3Mej8</a></p>— Gordon MacKenzie ♏ (@jgmacken) <a href="https://twitter.com/jgmacken/status/937687002404741121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
I know we're realistically a couple of weeks away from speedy train movements (at best) but jesus, with the fog we've had today, imagine a silent LRV mowing down all these folks at speed...
Is there any plan to permanently mark the curb cuts around the transit corridor in places like Northfield? I personally witnessed two people drive up on them and get stuck in the short period before the traffic cones appeared after construction finished. They are quite hard to spot otherwise, especially in poor weather.
They’ve painted them yellow now, but they’ve left the cones/barrels up in most places - probably will remove them at the last possible moment.
I know I sound like a broken record, but Gold Coast Light Rail really does this best, and considering half our team is from there, I’m surprised it wasn’t made a thing, here...
![[Image: Gold-Coast-Tramway-Big181201673349.jpg]](http://www.keolismiddleeast.com/admin/Content/Gold-Coast-Tramway-Big181201673349.jpg)
We don't do this because we live in areas where residents successfully campaign against bike lanes because the white paint is too offensive to the eye in their neighbourhoods. It's the same reason the bike lanes in UpTown won't be green (and will be used as parking by non-inconsequential amounts of people), and why we can't have more clear block-outs where cars could enter the rapidway.
(12-05-2017, 10:06 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: [ -> ]We don't do this because we live in areas where residents successfully campaign against bike lanes because the white paint is too offensive to the eye in their neighbourhoods. It's the same reason the bike lanes in UpTown won't be green (and will be used as parking by non-inconsequential amounts of people), and why we can't have more clear block-outs where cars could enter the rapidway.
Don't forget the campaign against sharrows in the Vic Park neighbourhood. Because even platitudes are too much for cycling for some people.
I’ve never heard of these campaigns; where and how are they happening? Why are there not (louder) campaigns by activists to counter these people who are so against these projects that we (WRConnected) see as positive?
(12-04-2017, 09:12 PM)Canard Wrote: [ -> ]About 50% of the time I bike through Waterloo Park, I see one person walking along the tracks. But this takes the cake:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/UWaterloo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UWaterloo</a> & <a href="https://twitter.com/Laurier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Laurier</a> you might want to say something about <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/railsafety?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#railsafety</a> as this bright lot were walking on the tracks through <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/waterloopark?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#waterloopark</a> this very foggy morning.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UWaterloo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UWaterloo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Laurier?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Laurier</a><a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@rideIONrt</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/citywaterloo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@citywaterloo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/570NEWS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@570NEWS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/CTVKitchener?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CTVKitchener</a> <a href="https://t.co/peu3L3Mej8">pic.twitter.com/peu3L3Mej8</a></p>— Gordon MacKenzie ♏ (@jgmacken) <a href="https://twitter.com/jgmacken/status/937687002404741121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
I know we're realistically a couple of weeks away from speedy train movements (at best) but jesus, with the fog we've had today, imagine a silent LRV mowing down all these folks at speed...
Well as my sister would say it would remove dummies from the gene pool if they were hit
, but ya i couldn't believe it when I saw them either.
There must have been a full moon reciently!