05-18-2017, 12:01 PM
(05-17-2017, 08:18 PM)darts Wrote:(05-17-2017, 12:24 PM)Coke6pk Wrote: I would question how many GTA residents would commute from home to Cambridge for a downtown library, city hall, a pedestrian bridge or 2 way traffic. A dense city has more customers willing to use the service. Limiting density to 3 stories would seem counter productive.
I'd also question his anti-LRT stance as another road block for the city. [How do the non-car owners get to/from the station?]
Coke
How many are going to KW for their library and courthouses and condos? Yes there are tech companies in both cities, there are companies in cambridge that are also in Toronto as well, and for the most part for meetings there are telephones
His LRT stance as I understood it was more along the lines of the LRT wasn't coming to Cambridge and the residents in cambridge would end up subsidizing the operation costs, which is true since it looks like phase 2 is 10 years out assuming there is provincial and federal money. How much of his LRT stance and how you perceive him affecting your thoughts on this matter, if he were to die today the next mayor would likely be in favour of a go train coming to Cambridge.
And as DH lawrence has pointed out there is a lot of land between Beverly and Shade st, at Beverly just past Dundas, there is a bunch of buildings near dundas st that will be next to the LRT.
I read your initial response as things that have been done to "support themselves" as referenced earlier. While these are great things for the city, they are not reasons to bring people in. [Notice I left the theatre off my list].
If I was Metrolinx, I wouldn't be jumping at the chance to head to a new location that is anti-"local transit initiative".
K-W has already proven we have commuters coming this way. Cambridge can only prove they are taking in those willing to do a longer drive into Toronto.
Coke