10-31-2020, 09:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2020, 09:52 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-31-2020, 09:09 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-31-2020, 05:28 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Yes, sorry, only for re-construction, new construction seems to usually include sidewalks, I'm sure it's in some standards doc...although only for urban context roads, which is why shit like Highland Rd. and Victoria St. existed for so long.
Highland and Victoria were much older construction, though; I expect sidewalks were not required at the time.
AFAIK Highland was constructed in it's previous configuration in the 90s.
Yeah, I guess that's getting on 30 years ago, but it doesn't feel that old to me.
I am not certain of the exact details, but I'm fairly sure that the region, up until recently (for some definition of recently but clearly more recently than the formation of the region, possibly as recently as 10 years ago) had a policy where cities had to pay to construct sidewalks on regional roads. This kind of turf fighting led to stuff like Victoria and Highland. Of course, that was less recently than for the same policy for signage for MUTs, which was only fixed in the last 1-2 years, because apparently we have to learn everything the hard way.