12-05-2019, 07:30 AM
(12-04-2019, 11:05 AM)panamaniac Wrote:(12-04-2019, 07:11 AM)MidTowner Wrote: They really are probably pretty useless, but not because of what they are, but what they're connecting. A struggling shopping centre (or whatever it is now) is not going to generate much foot traffic from a hotel that doesn't seem to be too thriving, either.
I'm not generally a fan of elevated walkways, or subterranean pathway-shopping malls (I am with you 100% on porticos, however). Foot traffic at street level is desirable. That having been said, this seems like a good application for protected walkways.
Really? I hadn't heard that before, although the restaurant seems to have zero buzz. That overpass has been closed for decades, has it not?
I don't know how long it's been closed; I have been in the Delta/Crowne Plaza only a handful of times, and never would have had occasion to use the overpass. My perception of the Crowne Plaza is that it is not hugely busy (this formed from extremely unscientific observations like I never seem to see groups going in and out when I pass by), but I also know from people who sometimes have to put visitors up that it is down on their list of choices.
Anyway, I don't think it's very bold to say that an overpass from Breithaupt Block to the transit hub would generate a lot more traffic than an overpass between the hotel and Market Square is ever likely to.