General University Area Updates and Rumours

[cherrypark]

Coming at this from the position of a household that just purchased a cargo bike to reduce our family's car use in the city:

I think the takes stating the obvious that people will still use / will need to use cars is stating a fact. We should ask for policies or planning that makes it less easy to cater to that choice (e.g. - car garages are expensive, but maybe that should be the cost of allocating parking and all the infra demand that induces in urban areas), but I also think that its reasonable to say that even with a huge mode shift overall, there are still going to be laggards or people with other circumstances. A few more pain point on the ease of use can help incentivize that change, but I've never quite subscribed to the idea that its best to force a change by extreme restriction.

To get the average commuter and resident to by into the facts is partly an education campaign and exposure to those options and fighting for changes in design and priority that make those services a pleasure instead of a choice by need or activism. I don't think its unfair to say KW still has a distance to go in that regard, as much as I think the cities are making some positive progress?