General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Good progress has been made on the Uptown King St improvements this past week! King from Dupont to Bridgeport is now fully paved and has curbs. No sidewalks, trees, or bike lanes yet though.

Erb to Dupont though, I'm trying to figure out whats going on. They had done the street parking a while back (you can see a trailer parked on it here), and last Isaw they had been placing soil cells underground. Now, it looks like they've paved over the soil cells? Is this new cement supposed to be a sidewalk? Where's the bike path? Why the the cement so much lower than the top of the curbs? Can't quite figure out what's going on.
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It looks like they're going to put down two layers of concrete, which is common for roads (asphalt ones at least) but I didn't think they did for sidewalks. Maybe the expect this one to be driven on more often.

And yes, they poured concrete over the soil cells, but you can see they've left holes for trees, which is their intended function. I think they've now done the same on King St. at Victoria St.

I'm also not entirely sure where the bike lanes will go.