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Is There a Method in City Planner Madness?


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#21 Jason-L

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Posted 15 May 2018 - 06:36 AM

Oh wow, a bridge across into James Bay?  Clearly they envisioned a completely different demographic living in the area by 1990.



#22 PraiseKek

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Posted 15 May 2018 - 06:40 AM

I think you can look no further than the old island highway beautification project in View Royal as an example of how infrastructure is done here. The goal of that project was to slow down a major thoroughfare through View Royal. I'd be curious to know what the residents of the area think about the project now. If I lived there I'd probably be pretty mad at the politicians who cooked that up.


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#23 Mike K.

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Posted 15 May 2018 - 07:55 AM

Residents are mad. They're literally immobile between the hours of 3 and 6PM. Can you imagine living in a community that has engineered every artery into a congested thoroughfare? Literally engineered it that way? That'd be horrible.


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#24 Baro

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Posted 15 May 2018 - 09:22 AM

Road diets are very good,  but need to be part of a comprehensive plan to deal with the lost private vehicle traffic.  You can't just do road diets without pairing that with improved transit.  That's the long term plan, but you need to do it all together and quickly because the transition can be painful even in the best of circumstances.  


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#25 Mike K.

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Posted 15 May 2018 - 09:25 AM

Improved transit has been the talk of this town since the mid-1990's.


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#26 PPPdev

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Posted 16 May 2018 - 12:31 PM

The best transportation plan is a land use plan. This city, as it transitions from a big town to a small city will need a more cohesive densification strategy in order to make a multi-modal transportation network more viable.

 

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#27 tedward

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Posted 16 May 2018 - 02:16 PM

The best transportation plan is a land use plan. This city, as it transitions from a big town to a small city will need a more cohesive densification strategy in order to make a multi-modal transportation network more viable.

 

Don't get discouraged, we live in one of the most beautiful places in the world!

 

I will agree that, "[t]he best transportation plan is a land use plan" but how can you say, "[d]on't get discouraged"?!!?

 

There is no "city" in this discussion. There are cities, plural, who cannot agree on anything, let alone a, "cohesive densification strategy". 
 

As for a, "a multi-modal transportation network " did you catch the Premier's announcement on light rail? Unless by "multi-modal" you mean both cars and buses, we are royally screwed.


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#28 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 16 May 2018 - 02:42 PM

Road diets are very good,  but need to be part of a comprehensive plan to deal with the lost private vehicle traffic.  You can't just do road diets without pairing that with improved transit.  

 

But we have no way to run transit, except buses on those same plugged roads, in the same lanes as cars, right?  


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