General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[plam]

These are everywhere in Tokyo, and very often accompanied by trees and plants growing on them. It makes such a big difference on large, busy roads, and I'd love to have them here. I get there is an argument that it blocks pedestrians from freely crossing the street outside of designated intersections, but I think it can improve the streetscape enough that it's worth it.

Mind you, as long as we don't create something like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.2953841,...8192?hl=en

You mean like the Ring Road fences? But they're not quite on the pedestrian side.