Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

I don't know the numbers but University/Seagram (well really, University and the railway tracks) is a huge pedestrian/transit user corridor. And as for "what a pedestrian could want", there's the UW residences, UW, and the UW Plaza. At least as much if not more than there is at the UW stop.

I think your argument holds far better with Columbia and the tracks, but I still would argue that for better or worse, Columbia and University are major pedestrian corridors.

Yeah, it's a shame, and yeah, they're terribly unpleasant places to walk, but they are nonetheless very busy.

That being said, if the city/university had the initiative, they could fix (or rather could have fixed, boat's kinda sailed already) the whole mess, by turning development inwards towards Hickory, extending Hickory through to Ring Rd., making it a large pedestrian plaza, and turning that into the entrance to campus. Then you'd have a centralized dense pedestrian area.

Of course, now there's a switching box directly in that pathway, and there's a fence forcing pedestrians to take a circuitous route to anywhere on campus. I am not in the slightest impressed with how the UW station area has been put together.