(09-08-2023, 03:17 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: *looks at streetview* Oh yes, I remember now...the North side is like...idiotically misaligned...despite the whole thing being rebuilt, they couldn't be bothered to actually do a good job.
I have a vague recollection of seeing an LRT-related plan that seemed to show the path being slightly re-routed on the north so that it approached the crossing straight on, and I was expecting to see that but it never appeared. I think there is buried infrastructure, probably electricity related, in the way. But of course a road re-routing would probably not be cancelled due to some inconvenient obstruction.
I have another beef further south: the double-path system through the park should have been extended all the way to Seagram, and the access road from the parking lot eliminated. Now you may object that there is a storm pond in the way, but that was created as part of LRT construction so it could just as well have been placed east rather than west of the path, indeed where the parking lot road is.
Next on my list is to build the double-path system on the east side of the tracks from Seagram north to the crossing just north of University, then across the tracks and terminating at Ring Road. I think that would finally deal with the situation. Well, at least until induced demand kicks in. But I think induced bicycle/pedestrian demand is much more manageable than the same for motor vehicles owing to the enormously lower cost and space requirements to satisfy it.