08-19-2015, 08:19 AM
(08-18-2015, 11:28 PM)The85 Wrote: On the 4505 King website, they cite being on one of the roads in the region with the highest traffic counts (over 35,000 daily). The sad thing I'm afraid is the vast majority of traffic in this area on King Street and Highway 8 is just passing through to get to the 401 or connect Kitchener and Cambridge. Once the MTO moves closer to build the south-west ramp from Highway 8 to the 401, it will unfortunately remove a lot of the traffic between KW and London/Windsor off King Street. I didn't think of this when I started the thread, but this will be another blow to the area's future retail base. Add to this the rapidly changing format of brick and mortar retail.
Losing traffic that's just passing through isn't a big loss. Such automobile traffic never really stops, I understand. I suspect that area just isn't really well located for retail.