11-01-2023, 02:55 AM
Wow...just wow.
That has so many features from the Netherlands, it's hard to believe it's in Kitchener, shocking because of how strongly this stuff was resisted by most engineers, shocking because even when they wanted to do a good job they couldn't. I'm going to have to go take a look when we visit in December.
Hopefully, again, this is driven by standards. I know this is part of the cycling network, so it isn't going to be repeated everywhere, but hopefully the pedestrian features become standard.
Unfortunately, the region and the city of Waterloo still won't do this kind of thing...but at least there is precedent.
As for the sharks teeth on the sidewalk that is a bit weird, in the Netherlands sharks teeth are not used on ped infra, only bike and car infra, but I know that road is going to be bike route so possibly that will be a combined trail. The tactile plates are funny, but not unprecedented, I imagine they're just being conservative, but that isn't the worst example of them I've seen. In the Netherlands, they'll only use the equivalent treatment if there is a surface change, which there isn't in the picture.
That has so many features from the Netherlands, it's hard to believe it's in Kitchener, shocking because of how strongly this stuff was resisted by most engineers, shocking because even when they wanted to do a good job they couldn't. I'm going to have to go take a look when we visit in December.
Hopefully, again, this is driven by standards. I know this is part of the cycling network, so it isn't going to be repeated everywhere, but hopefully the pedestrian features become standard.
Unfortunately, the region and the city of Waterloo still won't do this kind of thing...but at least there is precedent.
As for the sharks teeth on the sidewalk that is a bit weird, in the Netherlands sharks teeth are not used on ped infra, only bike and car infra, but I know that road is going to be bike route so possibly that will be a combined trail. The tactile plates are funny, but not unprecedented, I imagine they're just being conservative, but that isn't the worst example of them I've seen. In the Netherlands, they'll only use the equivalent treatment if there is a surface change, which there isn't in the picture.