Here's the link to the radio station publishing the news, versus a 'stay-inside-a-google-bubble-and-never-visit-the-OP' link: https://www.ckom.com/2025/08/06/pedestrian-overpass-at-u-of-s-to-be-removed-replaced-by-crosswalk/
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Thanks, I edited the post! I don't know how I got a Google link.
Right on! 😎
When I first saw the title I was thinking why the heck would they even think of removing it? Sure during my University life I used it only a handful of times but I also did not live on Campus. After reading the article I am still worried that the city has no idea as to what they are doing, but I understand as to why they want to remove it. They are hoping that the Transit system will start to work more efficiently and be used more by more people, yet they fail to take into account that this is Saskatoon and the Transit system has a bad rap (for good reason).
At the end of the article it appears to say that they are putting in the new system for the lights starting summer 2026 and that it will take something like 2 years. I hope it is a really complex system being put together by hamsters running around, it should not take two years to study traffic patterns more and install a new computer system and then carry on with traffic monitoring.
I was thinking the same thing, but the article did help make sense of it all.
When I was in uni I didn't use the pedestrian bridge all that often, either... In fact i probably jay-walked across college way more often than using the bridge. 😅
I would be shocked if a crosswalk took 2 years to build... I thought it was the bus corridor that the article was referring to, but honestly who knows. There's another article about the bus corridor, which shows some possible designs for a few intersections on college drive, but I don't see the planned pedestrian crosswalk on there.
I read this, looking for more explanation. i got curious as to what the lines where potentially going to look like. Yeah I do not see these being vandalized. Nor do I see any issues arising all the freakin time with the exclusive use lanes, especially downtown the one down collage may be better /s.