08-29-2016, 05:30 PM
(08-29-2016, 05:00 PM)Markster Wrote: Hey, so I was on the radio last week!
If you missed it, and want to listen, I posted my part (as well as a Tom Galloway bit from earlier spliced in) to YouTube. It also features a bunch of supporting imagery.
Finally got to listen through your interview, it was a really good interview, you definitely seemed to get your point across.
I did find a few things interesting, regarding my own pet peeve on this particular issue, which is in my opinion, the *real* problem is that the area was never designed to be walkable.
I think Tom Galloway touched on this when he said there weren't formal paths. And you kind of implied it when you said it was surprisingly walkable.
If the paths had been formal paths from the beginning, then crossings would have probably been included in the design. But since walkability i.e., the concept of walking from the neighbourhood to the businesses was never built for (I imagine, never even considered), these paths don't exist. The fact that the hydro corridor with the recreational trail and few/no/with holes fences prevented it, merely meant that walkability was a happy accident for residents.
This might be a problem affecting Traynor right now, but the general problem affects many neighbourhoods like Traynor across the region. Specifically, even places that could be walkable, aren't. Designs seem to, and indeed do, go out of its way to prevent walkability.