(10-19-2025, 08:54 PM)KevinL Wrote:(10-19-2025, 06:58 PM)ac3r Wrote: Does anyone know why they've bolted black plastic strips on the platforms at Fairway? They're similar to the yellow ones with bumps they have for blind people, but these aren't sunk into the concrete. They're slippery in the rain and serious tripping hazards.
Per GRT on Facebook,
Quote:Installation of a new tactile pathway on bus and train platforms at Fairway Station is ongoing until early November. We’re testing tactile wayfinding at Fairway and Conestoga stations as part of work we’re undertaking to make our stations more accessible.
Weird. I've had to include these in designs before so I was fairly confused because the way they have them laid down is awkward. I'm sure they adhere to specifications but the path they were on was just odd. A very obvious "accessibility came after the fact" type of solution.
And I can see I'm not the only one that finds them a tripping hazard as they are now, though I imagine they'd install proper ones eventually. But like a comment on FB said, they don't really care much about accessibility when it comes to transit. Bus stops are frequently a mess in winter and all the "new Canadians" have zero manners and will push onto the LRT without waiting for anyone to get off first.
Which reminds me, I really need to start pestering the region about adding arrow markers on the platforms that can try to help make it obvious that you stand to the damn side to let people GET OFF first. 99% of the time you roll up to a station and there are 10 Indians on the platform standing right where the doors open and immediately push on when they open. It's funny because the Indians that have been here longer understand that it's poor etiquette and it annoys them too, but India has a notoriously severe problem with a lack of civic sense back there and we've seen that manifest here with all these new comers who really don't care much about the country because they have no stakes here.