Catalyst137

[ijmorlan]

I just wish more care was taken to be selective about what can stay, and what has to go.

I'm a coaster enthusiast and it's wonderful that so many parks take great care to keep every tree possible when designing and building a new coaster. Some parks just clear cut a giant rectangle, and it's awful. But others are meticulous about coming up with novel construction techniques to save as much as they can.

I'm horrified when I look back at my old photos of Waterloo Park and how the LRT has just destroyed the visuals along the Laurier Trail. It's really sad.

Agreed about the park. I walk/bike through there going to and from work, and just yesterday I noticed that some of the tree stumps are still there next to the drainage ditch — in other words, they did not need to be cut down. The ditch could have been 30cm narrower, or the whole system of tracks and drainage could have been shifted to the west by 50cm or so and they could have avoided cutting down almost the entire line of trees along the path. Not an impressive commitment to context-aware design.

Still, I can’t wait to see the LRVs going through there at nearly top speed (for our line).