09-07-2020, 01:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-07-2020, 01:33 PM by danbrotherston.)
(09-06-2020, 11:29 PM)jeffster Wrote:(09-05-2020, 05:32 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I think this is defeatist. This will happen if we let it happen, resigning it to ourselves to it happening lets it happen. If we instead resolve for it not to happen, we can stop it.
As for transportation, there are two bridges already, active transportation and GRT service could easily be provided without an additional bridge. In fact, there is easily room to put active transportation on the existing Victoria St. bridge without even removing lanes.
Edit: For reference, here's a proposed low cost (at least for Phase 1) multi-phase Victoria St. MUT expansion that would connect Breslau and the planned future suburbs with cycling/ped infra to the rest of the city...probably on order of 500k dollars--it isn't 8-80, but for 500k, it should still be a no brainer. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1...Ij6Jl7etJS&usp=sharing
It's not defeatist at all. If we want vibrant safe communities for young families we still need this type of development. It's simply not going to stop because some people don't like houses and cars.
*rolls eyes*...can you drop the nonsense, just because you grew up in a miserable car dependent suburb doesn't mean everyone wants that for their children. There is nothing vibrant about car dependency and suburban sprawl, and there's strong evidence that it isn't good for young famillies. It's also the case that there are vast swaths of the city already built this way and it is in fact the walkable livable areas that are in desperately low supply. Of course, none of that really change the fact that the real problem is the fact that your development is unsustainable---young families probably also want to have a planet for their children to live on in the future.
But you're just going to accuse me of hating cars and houses. Clearly we are not even on remotely the same page, nor do you care to be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul_xzyCDT98&ab_channel=NotJustBikes
I for one, do not want to raise my child in such an environment, and that is one reason that we will probably leave KW.