ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[ookpik]

That chain and post fence in Edmonton looks good and seems to work. They likely need some kind of fencing in the park because the trains will probably travel faster on this stretch than on the street segments. Most of the LRTs that I have traveled on, have fencing along fast sections to keep animals and/or pedestrians from encroaching on the tracks. 

If safety is the issue then chain and post won't stop yard apes and animals from running across the tracks. Neither will any fence that doesn't have self-closing gated openings. 

Maybe they're going for some sort of jail effect with high, secure fencing along the tracks plus all the chain-link fencing that encloses the zoo on the other side. 

BTW Melissa Durrell's e-mail is Melissa.Durrell[AT]waterloo.ca and Dave Jaworsky's is dave.jaworsky[AT]waterloo.ca. I imagine the others follow the same pattern.