04-06-2023, 09:50 AM
(04-05-2023, 02:40 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-05-2023, 01:20 PM)KevinL Wrote: Well, she had me in the first half...
"Frozen out of key discussions about her neighbourhood's future"...
She's quoted in the fucking paper! She is in fact, the ONLY one in the discussion.
I will agree that Victoria isn't a liveable street, but her group isn't arguing for it to be a liveable street...she is arguing for it to be a museum, fixed in time, never to change.
The street needs a road diet, some bike lanes, and a whole lot of trees, but they aren't asking for that...and I will eat my hat if they didn't oppose that if it was proposed.
Victoria on a road diet from Walnut all the way to Bruce would be a thing of beauty - 3.5km of separated bike lanes to cut across town fast. You could link up so many parts of the cycling grid, you could install pedestrian crossings in key areas so that people feel like they can actually cross the street in useful places without getting mowed down, and you'd get great connectivity to the transit hub. Add in some trees so that the walk/ride isn't so windy and exposed to the sun, and we might have a real winner.