(12-16-2020, 04:12 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(12-16-2020, 02:48 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Owning a car doesn't mean that you have to drive it every day. At this point in time, most of the people who live and work downtown still own a car ...
Honestly, I've never understood this. Owning a car if you don't need it (every day) is vastly expensive.
But you aren't wrong, most people do it.
That being said, the are is at least as walkable as other areas people have insisted are walkable...there is a plaza, parks, schools, within easy walking distance. And it is "transit oriented" and it's very close to ION with fast access to the mall and downtown.
But no, it is not a pleasant place to walk I don't think...especially in the winter with the wind.
It is, but sometimes you need one which is why so many people own one.
If I need to go to the art store, that's close to a 2 hour bus ride across the city for me. By car, it's maybe 15 minutes. If I want to go downtown to the library, which is a closer trip, it's still a 30 minute bus+LRT trip. Transportation in this city is an absolute joke and it'll pretty much never get better. I was all excited that the LRT could get me downtown faster than the bus took and it would open up a faster way to travel across the entire city - but no, it takes me even longer now and it requires me taking a bus just to get to the LRT.
Anyway, apart from providing some new housing for a tiny class of people that can accord it, this is a garbage development that will do nothing but perpetuate the class/housing/economic/planning etc problems in this city. dtkvictim is right in saying it sucks. It's in the middle of a strip of ugly land between a big road and railroad tracks, which has zero impact on the street or surrounding area and is so far away from anything (trust me, 10 minutes to a grocery store is a lot when you have groceries) that is absolutely 100% car oriented. Tall buildings don't mean it's a good development (and the buildings are god damn ugly anyway). It's just suburban sprawl, albeit vertical.