10-30-2019, 01:43 AM
I have.... questions.
Why on EARTH do they need to tear down this mansion or acquire this much property here? What's with all the space closer to Highway 8 left untouched? It looks like the train could just as easily run though there and disturb much less property
![[Image: PW5SvbL.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/PW5SvbL.jpg)
Likewise, here, at the top of Shantz Hill. The property line doesn't even go near the buildings, why acquire and raze these entire properties? The chance anything would get built here on the newly empty land seems slim to none. Especially anything consolidated, given the slope.
![[Image: SmoB3cU.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/SmoB3cU.jpg)
I hadn't been keeping super up to date with the Preston arrangement, and I knew there was some kerfuffle, but this is the solution they cam up with? This feels slapdash and comically inaccessible. You're practically walking through people's backyards to get to it. Why could it not have been oriented alongside the road? I can't even fathom what the purpose of this block will be to Preston in the future, what sort of development would you want on this block with the LRT station running through it? Residents wouldn't want to live in the pieces of the houses that remain, and SURELY you don't want your station hiding in between 2 condos on either side of it, so even if the remaining property was consolidated, there shouldn't be anything taller than a single storey. What absurdity. To hell with the bending to every whim of the public, if you're massacring the goddamn city block to the point it's unusable, tell the public to fuck themselves. This doesn't even make sense!
![[Image: 4lCS4S2.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/4lCS4S2.jpg)
And to a lesser extent, same goes for here. Why is the station on this angle? Who's going to use the station entrance further set into the property? Who is it for? Why isn't along the road? Anyone coming from the West (top of the picture) is inexplicably inconvenienced. And again, what could POSSIBLY be built on the Williams property here now, why would you want a building obstructing the station? It's completely rendered useless, and for what?
![[Image: q69oZp7.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/q69oZp7.jpg)
And this..... they couldn't have just built an overpass or something? They're building one to get over Fairway to avoid a complicated intersection — this is just silly
![[Image: LmBvTkI.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/LmBvTkI.jpg)
Why on EARTH do they need to tear down this mansion or acquire this much property here? What's with all the space closer to Highway 8 left untouched? It looks like the train could just as easily run though there and disturb much less property
Likewise, here, at the top of Shantz Hill. The property line doesn't even go near the buildings, why acquire and raze these entire properties? The chance anything would get built here on the newly empty land seems slim to none. Especially anything consolidated, given the slope.
I hadn't been keeping super up to date with the Preston arrangement, and I knew there was some kerfuffle, but this is the solution they cam up with? This feels slapdash and comically inaccessible. You're practically walking through people's backyards to get to it. Why could it not have been oriented alongside the road? I can't even fathom what the purpose of this block will be to Preston in the future, what sort of development would you want on this block with the LRT station running through it? Residents wouldn't want to live in the pieces of the houses that remain, and SURELY you don't want your station hiding in between 2 condos on either side of it, so even if the remaining property was consolidated, there shouldn't be anything taller than a single storey. What absurdity. To hell with the bending to every whim of the public, if you're massacring the goddamn city block to the point it's unusable, tell the public to fuck themselves. This doesn't even make sense!
And to a lesser extent, same goes for here. Why is the station on this angle? Who's going to use the station entrance further set into the property? Who is it for? Why isn't along the road? Anyone coming from the West (top of the picture) is inexplicably inconvenienced. And again, what could POSSIBLY be built on the Williams property here now, why would you want a building obstructing the station? It's completely rendered useless, and for what?
And this..... they couldn't have just built an overpass or something? They're building one to get over Fairway to avoid a complicated intersection — this is just silly