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Originally Posted by Wormius
Is there something that is causing people to end up having to jaywalk there? What I mean is, not everybody who is jaywalking is leaving their house on 8th St and have to jaywalk there. Anybody leaving shops or the ctrain would be logically coming down 10th and can cross there. Couldn't people just adjust their departure points and head down a street that has a pedestrian crossing over Memorial Drive and then walk a little bit west or east to the Peace Bridge?
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I just used the Google Maps "Measure Distance" tool to "walk" from the north side of the Peace Bridge to the Sunnyside C-Train station...
- Going down the pathway to 10th Street, crossing Memorial at 10th, and walking up 10th Street to the C-Train station is just over 1km.
- Using the pedestrian overpass at 9A St and going north on 9A to the C-Train station reduced the distance slightly, to about 900m.
- Jaywalking across Memorial to 8th St, walking up 8th St to 3rd Ave and over to the C-Train station is about 550m.
- Taking the pathway to the new crossing at 9th St and walking up 9th St to the C-Train station is about 460m.
Because of the way the streets in Sunnyside are angled, if your destination is northwest of your current location, you inevitably have to do some backtracking. The current legal pedestrian crossings nearly double the distance you have to walk compared to jaywalking at 8th or 9th Streets.
I honestly didn't think the difference would be that significant. The fact that it is really explains why a lot of people choose to jaywalk there.