10-14-2020, 09:47 PM
(10-14-2020, 08:39 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(10-14-2020, 07:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I do think this is the kind of thing that will continue to push out previous residents of DTK, or at a minimum, be of little value to them.
How, exactly?
Individuals who are counting every penny they spend on groceries aren't going to be shopping there. It's gentrification. They've suffered through not having a full service supermarket for years, this isn't going to change that.
(10-14-2020, 08:39 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(10-14-2020, 07:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I love living in DTK, but I really wish the city had the appetite/ability to bring the good things about DTK to other parts of the city, a little more aggressively.
Just out of curiosity, what specific "good things" are you referring to?
Personally, every suburb I've lived in has had a more walkable grocery store than DTK, and that's certainly not a compliment to the suburbs. So for me I'm happy to see something "good" about the other parts of the city being brought to DTK.
I don't know if I'd say that any suburb I've lived in has had a walkable grocery store, I don't think I've ever been to a walkable suburban grocery store on this continent. Just to be clear, I don't consider a grocery store that I can technically walk to, but which is surrounded by miles of parking and dangerous roads, "walkable", but I'm sure that's a question of definition, it's certainly not pleasant to walk to.
But leaving aside the lack of a grocery store, DTK is generally a walkable, car-light place. Yes, I do complain aboout jackasses racing their noisy cars up the street, but at the end of the day, it's mostly not the 4-5 lanes of traffic that virtually every other part of the city gets to deal with (mind you, I live well away from Weber and Victoria), we have less cars and traffic violence than your average suburb, and I can walk to far more places than I could in any suburb I've ever lived in. I am able to live car free and feel relatively unencumbered by doing so. Even in winter, at least one direction from my home has clear sidewalks.