General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

This brings up my biggest issue with the LRT - "a trip downtown is a breeze away when the LRT is in place"  ... for who??  Maybe a few folks who happen to live around the line, but not for most residents of the city (and by most I mean everyone in Wards 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8).  I understand the planning rationale for creating a corridor that induces development (and a long-term shift in population from the suburbs to condos along that corridor), but I really wish the LRT as more useful for more existing residents - meaning it had lines that extended out into the existing suburbs to the east and west and made it easy for people to come downtown as a destination.  I get it - that was way out of the budget - but presently I have a hard time seeing how the LRT would help me get anywhere I want to go (have you ever found yourself on King street saying "gee, I really wish I could hope on a train and get to uptown waterloo?")  ... most of the city's residents (again, everyone in Ward 1, 2, 6, 7, and 8) live outside walking distance from the LRT, which means they will have to keep driving everywhere they want to go.   

Since the province is now providing 100% funding for this sort of thing we should be lobbying for a Phase II LRT that adds loops from the outer areas into the core to augment the main line!

Hey everyone, just wondering if there is info/renders of the buildings just approved next to the Aud? Can't seem to find them. Thanks!

This project?
http://vivedevelopment.com/property/169-borden-ave/

I'm confused why you replied to the first comment.

But honestly, buses...also "a few people"...the LRT goes through the densest parts of the city.

Whatever....

Edit: Oh, I see now, it was from 2015, you were using it as an example of who I assume?

Yeah, that's why I feel like this is an ancient conversation .