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[danbrotherston]

Both crossings to the UW Plaza are directly in line with the route the UW students walk to the plaza. Closing either would add much more than 20 m to the route. Building routes along those pedestrian desire lines is one of the few things they got right here.

The sections around the station are the real problem. Leaving aside the design was not even started when the buildings on campus were planned, the university is not interested in accomodating transit on campus, they are generally an obstacle, not a willing partner. But alos, the LRT design included better connections which were not included in the final construction.

As for platform doubling, the platforms are already the full size, the "doubling" is simply the structures on the platform, like the shelter, benches, TVMs etc. Reconstructing the actual platforms would be a vastly expensive exercise that is unlikely to occur in our lifetimes.

I would argue that if you look at the main pedestrian routes into that part of the campus, most students at the north end of the plaza are either heading down the roadway to the heart of the campus, or into DC.  The Engineering complex that faces the University Shops plaza is large a warren of additions and minor entrances to the building.  If anything, the southern path is really an extension of the University Ave pedestrian route with the bulk of the traffic being directed through the overpass at CPH. The University Ave crossing could have been widened to accommodate the extra pedestrian flow. Either the crossings on the Waterloo campus were done right, and others were done wrong, or the Waterloo campus got special privileges that other parts of the line did not.  I'm just glad that the early proposal for jersey barriers along King St in Waterloo were quickly put aside.

Yes...yes it did...but it hardly has to do with the crossings being "done right"...it is about the locations of the Waterloo and R&T park stations.

And so did GRH get special treatment, those signals are insane. Lots of groups got special treatment, where they had demands which made the system worse for people, but which that group perceived benefit.  Welcome to a non-authoritarian government.