05-10-2017, 08:42 AM
(05-10-2017, 01:15 AM)nms Wrote: A couple thoughts:
1. It looked like there will be a pedestrian crossing at the south end of the platform, but pedestrians will be crossing the gauntlets tracks with quite a significant gap between the rails. Will there be some sort of rubber to prevent canes or ankles from getting stuck?
2. I took a look at the functional design drawings (PDF, circa 2014?) for the areas and they appear to show a pedestrian crossing where the internal park road crossing used to be. Today, there was clearly a very complete chain link fence there and it looks (possibly), like the path is going further south than the drawings show (I didn't pause to look past the bulldozer). Did the plan change? Or am I misreading the drawings?
You're definitely not the first to have an issue here. Frustrating, but East-West is a small enough traffic volume for me to accept the situation right now.
As for 1, I imagine some filling will be used, but I doubt it will be much better than the asphalt that has been laid on the road. It appears grandlinq is unable/unwilling to fashion concrete plates for the gauntlet tracks, and the asphalt solution is not great.
And 2, yes, the design has changed substantially. You should take a look at the City of Waterloo's plan for the park here:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/gettingactive/...menade.asp
It provides a great deal of detail on the park as a whole:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresourc...2_AODA.pdf
That PDF provides specific details about the trail through the park including the bridges and the station. The design will be quite good in the end I think for the most part. Sadly, the station will still form an unnecessary choke point.