07-28-2022, 10:39 AM
(07-28-2022, 09:55 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(07-28-2022, 09:21 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: But the bus terminal “driveway” is a former driveway. Any future development would be built on the assumption that there is a bike path there. While I agree that we have to be careful to allow for the possibility of a vehicle entrance somewhere around that block, even in the absence of considering the bike path in designing that block a new build would most likely have a regular driveway, not a wide one like there is now.
It would probably be a (fairly?) regular one, depending on the structure of the block once it's developed. Narrower than now, but probably with more vehicles entering and exiting than the transit hub had.
With the one-way Joseph St, pedestrian Gaukel St and the LRT on Charles St, I fully expect that any driveways will be on Ontario St.
I am sure that the driveway will be on Ontario, but I disagree that it will carry more vehicles than the terminal.
Even a large apartment or office building will see less than 1000 traffic movements in a day.
The bus terminal would easily see that many buses.
Unless it is a public facility or an exceptionally large development we're going to see at most about the same number of movements. The difference will be that they will be much more concentrated at a certain time of day.