Walking in Waterloo Region

[dtkvictim]

A nice side effect of the bike infrastructure at Weber and Wellington is that you no longer have to hit the beg button to walk across the intersection. I like not having to race to hit the beg button or cross against the signal because I got to the intersection a second or two late.

I used to cross here daily and missed hitting the button by 1 microsecond all the time... The only "positive" to the previous system is that sometimes it's outright dangerous for a pedestrian to cross once turning vehicular traffic has started moving. See Weber and Victoria where turning vehicles would have hit me 2-3 times a week if I had taken my right of way, and instead I just stopped crossing unless I was at the signal the moment it turned green.

This definitely did not happen before the bicycle signal was installed (what a mess that situation was overall), but I cannot understand why anyone would ever obey that signal.

I didn't realize the pedestrian light operated like that now, but the fact that the bicycle signal is green while the gates are down just highlights the absurdity of the pedestrian signal regardless.