12-19-2019, 08:18 AM
(12-19-2019, 08:10 AM)jamincan Wrote: Place de Ville had an underground shopping concourse type thing going on, but I'm not sure that it really offered much in the way of connectivity.
The Rideau bus shelter/mall was definitely the major part of the problem, I think reading that article and others makes that abundantly clear. The fact that removing them didn't immediately eliminate the problem does not mean that their introduction didn't create it.
In what way can putting a roof over the sidewalk cause a problem? What is so fundamental to a good urban experience about getting rained on? Nobody ever explains this to me. I’m not clear about which article you are talking about — did I miss a link up-thread?
That being said, I do recall that the design of the covers was dumb. There were places where outside of a door there was a cover over part of the sidewalk, but there was a small no-roof gap between the door and the cover.