06-24-2020, 08:58 AM
(06-24-2020, 01:26 AM)Acitta Wrote: Apparently, the owners of the shopping centres at Highland & Westmount do not realize that cyclists also go shopping. I do much of my shopping on Highland by bicycle. I will be avoiding shopping at any shops in those particular strip malls in the future.
I noted this as well, I wondered if it might have been the plaza with the Foodbasics--somewhere that I do shop, always by bike, occasionally. Only occasionally *because* they don't have any bike parking (I usually have to lock my bike to their propane cylinder locker). It actually isn't this plaza, but the one on the west side of Westmount, with the Partsource, thrift store, and Scotiabank. What makes their letter even more disingenuous is that they only have a single entrance off Westmount (direct to the Scotiabank), and THREE off Highland (the issue of our region having too many entrances to plazas leading to decreased safety and decreased performance of regional roads is another issue altogether), so the idea that the changes to Westmount would restrict access to their plaza even by drivers is pretty ridiculous.