02-03-2015, 05:21 PM
(02-03-2015, 04:28 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: Exactly, currently transit in RoW connects mostly work destinations but not living quarters. Now since it is unrealistic to have buses collecting people from spread out suburbs the way to connect living quarters with work destinations is via density. We need more Bauer lofts/Reds/Cortes/City Centre/One Victoria located next to an iXpress hub where one can live, jump on the iXpress/LRT and show up to work at Uptown/Downtown/Universities/Northfield.
One solution would be for Sun Life (or the company that now owns their real estate) to develop the full-block parking lot between Union and Mt Hope into apartment buildings (rental and/or condo) plus a parking garage. They could even offer Sun Life employees a discount on accommodations there in order to encourage them to move across the street from work.
Speaking of parking garages, Grand River Hospital's is at full capacity. As I understand it the hospital gets no money from the province for parking lot maintenance or expansion so they have little incentive to add more, especially for visitors. So perhaps a new parking garage along Mt Hope could serve both Sun Life (employees during the day) and the hospital (visitors in the evening.) Then again the LRT stop at the hospital should relieve some of the pressure for more parking spots.