09-08-2024, 02:07 PM
(09-08-2024, 10:07 AM)westwardloo Wrote: The Boardwalk could have been a great little node at the edge of town, if it was planned correctly from the get go. The area could have easily been a mixed use development centred around a public square close to the railtrack in anticipation of a Kitchener west GO train. This probably would have put the station on the Provinces lists for potential stations if we had planned for it from the beginning. Instead we went for a slightly upgraded big box store "power centre" with a bunch of office buildings. unfortunately the boardwalk was planned horribly from the start and is almost impossible to correct without a significant investment.
Was it actually planned? I thought that the lands were zoned for commercial, and private developers decided what to build there--which is how most cities in North America get built up.
And any reasonable GO service was far away in the distance (and not even committed) when the Boardwalk construction started 15 years ago.