Uptown donates $125,000 towards cycling and pedestrian infrastructure
The developer of Uptown, the redevelopment of the old Town & Country Shopping Centre, has donated $125,000 towards alternative infrastructure improvements that include the Galloping Goose and Lochside trails.
The developer of the Uptown project has donated $125,000 towards alternative transportation improvements. Photo © by VibrantVictoria.ca.
“One of our central principles in the development of Uptown is environmental sustainability,” says Geoff Nagle, Morguard Investments’ Director of Development for Western Canada. “And bike-friendliness is a key component of this mission.”
Direct connection to the trails from Uptown, on-site facilities for cyclists, dedicated bike lanes along Saanich Road and Douglas Street, and a widened bike lane along Blanshard Street are part of a strategy to give shoppers and workers more incentive to leave the keys at home.
Other monies directed by Morguard Investments at alternative transportation include $2.7-million in mass transportation improvements such as special transit lanes and a discounted bus pass program for Uptown workers.
Future transit plans have positioned the project site as a major transit hub with rapid transit links connecting the entire capital region.
To discuss the Uptown project and to stay up-to-date on the latest news and developments, view the VibrantVictoria.ca Uptown discussion thread here.
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cakeman
Jan 21, 2012 at 9:46 amThat last pic is a good view of where I feel there will be a bunch of car accidents in the next few years..
If you ever want to view just how bad a large number of drivers are.. grab a coffee or three and kick back on that stretch for a few hours..
People leave the lights on Douglas at Saanich and figure they're now on highway, so they floor it.. Those leaving Uptown, if they dont try and go the wrong way up the Incoming lane into the Uptown structure, they fill the parkade exit and incoming/outgoing lanes because someone up front is either too nervous to get into the flow or there are no openings..
.. and then to top it off.. every half hour or so, you get some complete retard deciding they want to come down from highway speed and take the illegal right turn onto Carey.. usually with a full dump truck behind them that hammers his horns as the car in front slows from 70 to 20 right in front of him to make the corner..
I just have to think this REALLY wasnt well thought out by the planners..
cakes..
UrbanRail
Jan 21, 2012 at 10:37 amWhere the concrete trucks are, is the future location of the Uptown transit exchange and rapid transit station.
martini
Jan 21, 2012 at 3:22 pmQuote: That last pic is a good view of where I feel there will be a bunch of car accidents in the next few years..
If you ever want to view just how bad a large number of drivers are.. grab a coffee or three and kick back on that stretch for a few hours..
People leave the lights on Douglas at Saanich and figure they're now on highway, so they floor it.. Those leaving Uptown, if they dont try and go the wrong way up the Incoming lane into the Uptown structure, they fill the parkade exit and incoming/outgoing lanes because someone up front is either too nervous to get into the flow or there are no openings..
.. and then to top it off.. every half hour or so, you get some complete retard deciding they want to come down from highway speed and take the illegal right turn onto Carey.. usually with a full dump truck behind them that hammers his horns as the car in front slows from 70 to 20 right in front of him to make the corner..
I just have to think this REALLY wasnt well thought out by the planners..
cakes..
Also watch the Blanshard side going into town.
I don't know if the barrier they put up is such a great idea.
I've been stuck in that forced left on occasion.
Ravine Way can be confusing if you're unfamiliar with it as well.
cakeman
Feb 01, 2012 at 10:11 pmQuote: Where the concrete trucks are, is the future location of the Uptown transit exchange and rapid transit station.
I was lookin at the cover page of the site drawings today and from that, and looking at the space where they're working.. there -really- doesnt look like theres enough room to anything Id put a name as grand as 'exchange' or 'station' on?
cakes..
