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Originally Posted by Danny D Oh
One of the biggest problems I see is the complete lack of organization for pedestrians leaving the stadium in terms of safe and dedicated crossings. We started taking the bus this year, and IMO it's only a matter of time before someone gets hit by a bus post-game on Chancellor Matheson or University Crescent. Total free for all, very dark, nobody really taking control, every once and awhile a cop tries to stop the pedestrians crossing and waves a bus through but a group of people in the crowd don't realize and walk right in front of a moving bus. Matter of time until there is a serious injury or death the way it is now, and this is with crowds that are up to 10,000 below capacity.
IMO they need to set up at least 3-4 temporary crosswalks for the Bomber games in addition to the lights at University and CM, and the crosswalk on University Cres by the stadium.
Of course there will be people who just do their own thing regardless, but the majority will take the safe option in the dark.
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What they need to do is put up a (nice) fence along the entire sidewalk of Chancellor Matheson that only opens up at a few locations. This is for a few reasons:
1) Obviously it will eliminate people crossing wherever they please and reduce risk of accident.
2) It will force pedestrian traffic to flow along key corridors.
3) Most importantly possibly... It should open up with 2 small spaces at each of the Park And Ride Stops, where the doors of a bus will be located, enough for two busses to cue at a time at each stop. Right now ppl are standing in the middle of the street to line up at busses that won't open their doors because they're not at the cue point, but they can't get there because there's ppl all over the road.
Also, once my bus to Hydro on Taylor took Waverley and it was 10000x faster, but other bus drivers refuse to leave their designated route.... why do they insists on all buses using Pembina?