General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

Yes, hope so. It actually already has trees, but the area is so inactive, you'd barely even notice.

It's a shame they missed the opportunity to really improve that area when the LRT was built. But the region's gonna region.

What specific improvement would you have liked to have been done as part of the LRT?

Leaving aside bike infrastructure, Frederick and Benton should not be 4 lanes wide. The 4 lanes dates to a 1960s era plan to punch a highway through downtown. That plan is gone now, but the unnecessarily wide and wasteful 4 lane road remains. It should have been narrowed to 2 lanes maybe with turning lanes. This would have simplified significantly the LRT and allowed for both ends of the LRT platform to have pedestrian access.

Honestly, the fact that engineers who were paid money to be experts build a downtown LRT station in an urban environment without pedestrian access from both directions really makes me question how we evaluate expertise.