07-29-2022, 10:20 AM
(07-28-2022, 10:33 PM)plam Wrote: I think what's going on here is that ac3r is strongly in favour of ideal solutions. Clearly, running a bike lane in the middle of the train tracks is less ideal than having a whole segregated bike infrastructure.
That doesn’t explain why he is so negative on the centre track idea, to the point that one of the supposedly conclusive arguments he gave against it actually rules out his preferred solution (a completely separate bridge for active transportation).
Quote:But I tend to believe in the quote of politics being the art of the possible, and I'm also in favour of incremental change, even if it's not perfect. I'd rather have a solution which is less crappy than what exists now, versus holding out for the perfect solution. (And I think that in the context of the LRT we would be looking at a zillion car lanes on King St now if we had held out for the ideal solution.)