11-06-2022, 02:18 AM
(11-05-2022, 06:30 PM)Acitta Wrote:(11-05-2022, 05:12 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I'm not sure if there are plans for Homer Watson...FWIW...I'd like to see the whole segment North of Ottawa rethought....it doesn't need 4 lanes (it's another freeway artifact, it would have connected to Frederick/Benton eventually, and Lakeside park would be a freeway).
But I'm doubting anything that grand is planned.
The fencing seems gratuitous though...is there something I'm missing from the pictures or are they just doing the usual insane risk aversion thing?
The drop is quite high and would not be safe for children. There is no fence in Shoemaker Park where there is a slope down to the creek rather than the three layers of granite blocks that are everwhere else.
The very first picture you posted (in the first post) with the bridge railing in the foreground and the grey apartment building in the distance shows a fence where there is no drop, just a gradual slope.
That's the fence I'm talking about.
The fences with the blocks are...IMO unnecessary but not gratuitous.