(07-23-2018, 12:26 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I call it wrong because it I feel it doesn't meet the needs of the vast majority of the users of the road who aren't in cars, but that's only my opinion, and even more, my definition of "correct". Although, my opinion is informed by best practices in places which actually have a lot of people cycling and walking--I don't want to say that I know better than civil engineers, but in this instance, I'm going to.
It’s always prudent to be reluctant to believe or especially proclaim that the professional experts are wrong. In this particular case, however (not to mention many others in the planning area), there is ample evidence that they do not know what they are doing. I feel very comfortable agreeing with you that this design does not meet our needs and is a bad design that should not have been implemented. The suggestion given earlier in this thread to just have wider sidewalks that are actually MUTs, or my idea to do that but combine them in the middle between the LRT tracks, would have been much better in pretty much every way. For myself if I ever cross there I will ride on the sidewalk.