ION Stage I: what would you do differently?

[ijmorlan]

• Create a better transit plaza at Northfield Drive to connect with buses and possibly even the Waterloo Central Railway which would not include pedestrians having to scramble across Northfield Drive to make a connecting westbound bus
  

For the WCR, I figure they should have moved the LRT tracks over by the width of a platform. So you would have WCR/freight track, platform, LRT southbound, platform, LRT northbound. The only difference from what we have is the extra platform, for which there appears to be enough space given the huge amount of open space east of the tracks. This gives a cross-platform transfer between southbound LRT and WCR.

Then extend the freight track south of the crossover to provide a storage/overrun track for WCR.

Also the track crossings should continue west into the adjacent property rather than funnelling all platform traffic through the north end with the absurd pedestrian traffic control previously noted on this forum.