Walking in Waterloo Region

[danbrotherston]

I personally think they should keep it, but put in on a heavy diet. Narrower lanes, a boulevard, and cobbles, and then clear demarcations that pedestrians have the right-of-way at any point along the entire length through the park.

Is there any possibility of a median? In combination with your other proposals, this could provide crossing refuge space, either everywhere or in many individual locations (say, every 20-30m), which would make it even easier for pedestrian and vehicular traffic to co-exist.

While this is perhaps a reasonable idea, medians (I believe refuge islands included) necessitate extremely wide lanes (4.8 meters), which would be worse than no median IMO.

I think narrow lanes, cobbles, whatever it takes to show this is a shared space should be the minimum. There'd even be room for the, by some miracle, controversial sidewalk then.