05-04-2020, 05:30 PM
(05-03-2020, 09:59 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-03-2020, 09:22 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: I know about the “LRT viewing path” on the west side of Courtland, but I’m having trouble thinking of where the other example is of a fenced-in pedestrian path. Can you remind me?
I'm being slightly generous and including this railing atop a retaining wall on the other side of SLFs fence.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4587058,-80.5164811,3a,75y,164.47h,88.35t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stgcT-hTfTsxgWpAkjz1_Xg!2e0!5s20190701T000000!7i13312!8i6656
But it wasn't there before:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.4587096,-80.5164677,3a,75y,166.87h,88.15t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1b4G7T8JFdwzBrRJNG2Fgg!2e0!5s20090401T000000!7i13312!8i6656
So perhaps the presence of these fences deals with the steepness of the embankment. A wheelchair or stroller departing the sidewalk in front of SunLife wasn't in much danger with the original embankment but certainly would be now. The slope of the embankment along the Fairway Rd access sidewalk seems similarly stroller/wheelchair hostile. Of course a simple curb would have sufficed, but I'm not sure I've ever seen a sidewalk with a curb and it probably wasn't in the designer's lexicon.
...K