Comment 35725

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted November 25, 2009 at 14:25:26

More proof that personal automobile ownership as a transportation plan for a society is economically and ecologically unworkable.

It's damn-near a kilometre from the front door of Limeridge to the front door of the Toys R Us across the street. If Limeridge Mall or Meadowlands are the "successful retail centres" we're trying to emulate, then we're going to have to level another third of the core for surface parking. Take a look from above on Google Earth...if there isn't enough parking downtown, and we wish to keep any of the real estate (like, say, City Hall or the Armories), we're going to have to start stacking cars on their ends to make room. Those stretches of Wilson/Rebecca/King William where you can see for blocks on a Sunday all used to be homes and businesses...

A bus stop requires a few dozen yards of an otherwise useful lane of traffic and a post on the sidewalk, and the bus occupies it for moments at a time. A car, on the other hand, will sit there for all the time its owner(s) shop, work, eat or sleep, and prevents it's use as a bus stop. A bike, of course, can be locked to the pole on the sidewalk (or parking meter) and impedes other uses of neither.

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