05-16-2020, 04:47 PM
(05-16-2020, 04:24 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(05-16-2020, 11:04 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Honestly, I don't know what to do about the region. Few councillors have shown any interest in changing, and staff are FIRMLY in the "do the same as we've always done, NEVER change" camp.
The more I see how roads continue to be overbuilt and poorly designed, the more amazed I become that our LRT is a reality. It’s like the Regional government has a split personality.
Yes, exactly this. I really didn't understand it for a while. I think regional engineers, while they don't exactly prioritize transit, they do...legitimize it, where as cycling (and even walking...how they think people get to bus stops I'm not sure) they still don't treat as actual transportation.
As for the LRT (which has plenty of the anti-cycling/anti-walking policy in the design) I feel one of the biggest selling features of it to the regional staff and council was some combination of "we're a big city" with "developer developer developers" (and not in how Steve Balmer meant it).
To be honest, I don't see these things as bad, the development that resulted from the LRT has been nothing short of transformative, but I sure wish that the other half of the regions split brain wasn't firmly in the suburban wasteland mindset.