05-17-2017, 08:28 AM
(05-16-2017, 09:48 PM)darts Wrote:(05-16-2017, 08:09 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: It would get a limited number of cars off the road, for what amounts to a 100km journey. Where GO wants to invest is in cities that invest in themselves, to make bidirectional and all-day loading feasible. So far, as was said, Craig seems to be interested in being a bedroom community only, and so he gets widening of the 401 at various points between highway 8 and Mississauga, which is fitting for his efforts.
like restore a building downtown and put a library in it, build a city hall downtown, build a bridge, have a theatre built and dorms, convert traffic to 2 way traffic downtown, put those poles in the road to facilitate more open street events by the farmers market, try and entice developers to buy and find tenants for the former courthouse downtown that was abandoned, put in street scaping in guelph, spend double the budget to put in streetscaping in hespeler, suspend development fees for low income housing for 20 years (taxes too?), not collect any development fees for projects in the downtown area.
In the case of Guelph, the current administration also oversaw a large decrease in transit service hours. In the case of Galt, they are trying to put a blanket 3-storey maximum on the entirety of the area, as Doug goes about still opposing LRT. Making a space easier to convert for the occasional weekend festival is not an important factor in determining whether an area is supportive of GO, but how dense they allow their transit station to become, how hard they push to connect it to local transit systems of the highest calibre, that does tell you a great deal.