04-15-2022, 12:31 AM
(04-14-2022, 09:15 PM)ac3r Wrote: Quite the drastic differences in parking between this and the recently revealed 130-142 Victoria South project downtown Kitchener. This one has 494 units yet 508 parking spaces. The Victoria Street project - while indeed smaller - has 249 units and yet only 51 parking spaces. The Victoria project is closer to the LRT, but both still have decent transit access.
The only real difference is developer ideals - the latter reducing parking spaces to openly encourage transit use, with this one obviously not caring one bit about that. Also, just different attitudes towards using public transit that differ between residents in Waterloo and those in Kitchener. Kitchener favours density and both residents, the city and even certain developers actively encourage rapid transit or bus usage compared to the rest of the region which is much more conservative in mindset.
It's still 1 parking spot per unit at Bridgeport, which is kind of justified for the location, I think. It's basically in my back yard, and I don't consider it to be particularly close to the LRT (1.1km and not a great walk). It's close to the 8 on Weber, but that doesn't run that frequently. On a bike you can access Spur Line and Laurel Trail but it'll feel out of the way. It really is not particularly urban to be at a 15 minute walk's distance, through car sewers. Though groceries are easy.
130 Victoria is half as far to the LRT (550m) and it's not one of the weird split stations, so it's substantially better. Walking on Victoria still sucks though. But I think that location is much closer to more urban stuff.