08-16-2017, 09:44 AM
Progress at Laurel Trail and Weber:
As for the Transit Hub "trail", my impression is that they're doing the literal path of least resistance.
They're taking the easy half of two of their proposals, and stapling them together via Park St, and calling it done.
(One being the Waverly-CherryPark-Stewart route, the other being the Spur Line south to Victoria Park)
Unfortunately, in this case, 50% + 50% does not equal 100%.
I can see some merit in this. It begins construction on 50% of two worthwhile paths. But the killer is that thanks to the half-measure, getting political will to finish either routeproperly will become an uphill battle fighting against the "Oh but we already finished the trail" excuse. We will be stuck with a circuitous, difficult to navigate trail for 10 years at least, very likely longer.
The Weber St crossing of the Laurel Trail is well under construction pic.twitter.com/A0QbjiiYtO
— Mark Jackson-Brown (@Markster3000) August 16, 2017
As for the Transit Hub "trail", my impression is that they're doing the literal path of least resistance.
They're taking the easy half of two of their proposals, and stapling them together via Park St, and calling it done.
(One being the Waverly-CherryPark-Stewart route, the other being the Spur Line south to Victoria Park)
Unfortunately, in this case, 50% + 50% does not equal 100%.
I can see some merit in this. It begins construction on 50% of two worthwhile paths. But the killer is that thanks to the half-measure, getting political will to finish either routeproperly will become an uphill battle fighting against the "Oh but we already finished the trail" excuse. We will be stuck with a circuitous, difficult to navigate trail for 10 years at least, very likely longer.