04-30-2020, 12:12 PM
(04-30-2020, 11:59 AM)Rainrider22 Wrote: I suspect the city or Region purchased that portion of property where the fence is along the walk way. They need to keep it separate to mitigate risk and to appease insurance companies. The city wouldn't just spend money on a fence for no reason. Often there are rules and regulations that the lay person isn't aware of.
I am absolutely aware of those issues, it does not change the fact that this is an anti-pedestrian idiotic policy that has resulted in money being spent to make the city worse, and that people who were actually dedicated to making this as good as it can be would have pushed for a better less expensive, less stupid situation.
This adds 100 meters to anyone walking to any of those stores, for no legitimate reason whatsowever, those properties are open to the public, there is no restricted property being protected, as there would be in a residential setting, this is the type of thing that fiscal conservatives and urban activists alike should be pissed off about. Such an idiotic waste...
Yes, not the biggest issue, but few things are so clearly stupid as this.