07-17-2018, 08:50 AM
(07-16-2018, 02:37 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: What would you like them to do when they notice those paths?
They cannot legally open them without acquiring land, they weren't legally open before.
Frankly, I cannot understand this insistence on putting blame on individual failures. To me, this is quite clearly a failure of the system.
Work out an easement agreement with the relevant property owners, or expropriate narrow rights-of-way out to Fairview. A long process, to be sure, but by now it would be complete. I’m not so annoyed that the initial plan wasn’t perfect, but it’s years later and it still isn’t fixed.
Or, put paths on both sides of the tracks. Then it doesn’t matter whether the path/fence cut/parking lot with which the crossings line up are official: officially, the crossings would just be connecting the two paths, and it would be matter between the pedestrians and the property owners if they walked onto a property from the path. Also, paths on both sides improves the access to the crossings — for anybody going from a destination west/east of a crossing to one east/west of that crossing, the exact location of the crossing no longer matters at all.
Good point about individual failure, but still, somebody should have noticed and should have said something. Somebody should have cared enough to slip a note to a couple of regional councillors or neighbourhood associations early on, even if they had been overruled or ignored by other parts of the organization.