05-30-2022, 01:16 AM
(05-29-2022, 08:48 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(05-28-2022, 01:44 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Of course, regional expectations that cyclists will be "slowing or dismounting" when moving from one piece of cycling infra to another is really revealing.
Not that I disagree here because we see this in even worse situations, but I feel like this is more damning of the existing "cycling infrastructure". I wouldn't be surprised if it was missed somewhere along the line that the King St sidewalk is "cycling infrastructure" because it doesn't look like it, and it really shouldn't be considered cycling infra in its current form. Even if it wasn't missed, I still agree in this situation that cyclists should be cautious on a downhill which may have pedestrians, and merging to King St which may have pedestrians, though a concrete wall is probably not the right way to do it...
Yeah, the MUT along King St. is a bad joke. But I suspect you can put that on the same engineers.
(05-29-2022, 08:48 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(05-29-2022, 09:44 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Now that being said, there has been investment in revitalizing and improving some downtown parks or greens, and that is good (it's clear to me they are underused) but if there really wasn't enough space, then you'd see investment in creating more.
Sorry, this is off topic of the thread, but what spaces to you find underused? I have suspicions, and I agree they are underused, but I disagree that the right investments were made. I "bleat" about needing more park space, but places like Vogelsang 100% miss the mark for me.
Honestly, I was not referring to you or folks who make this argument in good faith. Again, it is the ones who use park space as an argument against development.
I have heard this from our councillor, but she has on no occasion proposed to create new park space, instead preferring a "moratorium on all development".
As for underused spaces, I am thinking of places like the space at Scott and Duke, or even King and Francis. If you wanted to be Dutch about it, you could even make better use of the spaces in front of some buildings. Of course, I don't really expect these places to get children's playgrounds, we were fairly unique in living downtown with a child.
There are also a lot of underused spaces IN Victoria park, it could be expanded significantly.
I do agree that Voglsang green isn't exactly what I have in mind, but I hope it works for some people. (It may also get better as the plantings grow).
(05-29-2022, 08:48 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:(05-29-2022, 09:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: The argument that regional staff were making was that moving through is fine, because people are not lingering and more importantly not disturbing or playing in the dirt.
I'm sure the Region will be showing some concern for the few homeless people set up there then, right? Right...?
I hope whatever is in the ground there isn't too harmful to them.
Yikes! Yeah, I hope that is the case. Alas, the health impacts of being unhoused likely dwarf any harms from environmental contamination.