Which parking lot do you want to see gotten rid of the most?

[Xelebes]

Parking lots - the ones that take up space or the ones that are stacked (garages). Which one is the worst? Which one would you rather have it taken up by a two floor soviet block?

I think for Edmonton, it's got to be 107th St on Jasper, where Boston Pizza is. The whole thing doesn't even look like it's paved, despite being paved - sometime in the 50's. Even a repaving would be nice.

[1ajs]

the big gap along graham

[Only The Lonely..]

This is a hard question for me to answer; so much of Winnipeg's downtown was needlessly bulldozed for surface parking.

However, if I had to pick just one site, I'd choose this vacant lot next to the towers at Portage & Main; the former site of the McIntyre Block.

http://wbi.lib.umanitoba.ca/WBImages/medium/MBCG-53.jpghttp://photos1.flickr.com/3800801_3a3a5ccf18.jpg

[freeweed]

Parking lots - the ones that take up space or the ones that are stacked (garages). Which one is the worst? Which one would you rather have it taken up by a two floor soviet block?


Well, if we got rid of all of them, the soviet (how aptly you called this one!) blocks would have to be significantly higher than two floors. Otherwise, you'd never cram a million+ people into a 10 block radius.

[The Chemist]

All the big ones around Eau Claire and the Chinese Cultural Centre.

[Wooster]

All the big ones around Eau Claire and the Chinese Cultural Centre.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/joshwhit/development/eauclaire.jpg

Yeah, these ones are a huge hole in the urban fabric. The upper right hand one in this image is where centennial place is being built however. the two left ones are slated for residential development, but who knows when that is happening.

Other candidates are the ones between 9th and 10th ave along the CPR, some are to be redeveloped, but others who knows. Also Imperial Oil lot and Louise Crossing. Those are the big ones in downtown.

[Boris2k7]

Take your pick, lots to go around... Josh mentioned the big ones already...
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/3485/parkingjb9.jpg

And a reminder of our development map...
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9029/sspmap1qo0yt7.th.jpg (http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sspmap1qo0yt7.jpg)

[Xelebes]

Well, if we got rid of all of them, the soviet (how aptly you called this one!) blocks would have to be significantly higher than two floors. Otherwise, you'd never cram a million+ people into a 10 block radius.

I'm saying I just want to see them gone - they're ugly even from an infrastructure geek/suv hog pov.

[Coldrsx]

Edmonton:

1. BP's area lands
2. 100ave/102/103st.
3. Greyhound parking lot
4. 104st/100ave

[mersar]

Louise Crossing (#8 on the Calgary map), and all the ground level parking along 9th would be nice to see gone. The Louise Crossing site has huge amounts of potential, along with the lots on the other side of 4th ave.

[DizzyEdge]

I completely despise parking lots in the innercity, parkades just make so much more sense, and they don't have to be 'soviet' eyesores:

http://www.foundlocally.com/Calgary/Images/CentennialParkade.jpg
http://www.rjc.ca/cms/images/centennial_parkade.jpg

http://www.calgaryheritage.org/images/denver_ottawa/parkade.jpg

http://www.parking.ubc.ca/ubcparkadefinalcopytest.jpg

I personally think calgary should set up another big parkade on 9th ave, and then one just off the center street bridge, and one on 9th ave by the east village, and on off macleod trail, then have a shuttle that goes 9th ave east, 6th ave west, 3rd ave east or something and have one arrive at each parkade every 15 mins. I like the idea of having most parkade space on 9th as 9th ave is the most 'freeway'-like road in the downtown core.

[RWin]

David Parker.

[jeffwhit]

Zing!

[RWin]

Seriously though, all those parking lots along 9th and 10th Ave.

[m0nkyman]

I'm going to vote for the ones in the inner harbour.
Before:
http://static.flickr.com/111/276905209_a3c9fb4aa6_b.jpg
After:
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/222/waterfronthypobd4.jpg

Full credit to Aastra (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/member.php?u=4471) for photoshop work!

[DizzyEdge]

See that's how a downtown should look, lots and lots of buildings and nary a crappy parkinglot in site. Vic is great.

[m0nkyman]

Edmonton and Calgary are bizarro world with parking lots. Winnipeg is bizarro universe. (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Winnipeg,+MB&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=49.895056,-97.138935&spn=0.004347,0.015267&t=h&om=1)

[vid]

The one behind Paterson Park, beside Brodie Street Terminal. And the one across from the Hydro Building by Water Street Terminal could use some beautification, or it would make a nice park. :) Hey, at least it's paved now.

[Rob D]

All the big ones around Eau Claire and the Chinese Cultural Centre.

I totally agree with this!

[DizzyEdge]

Edmonton and Calgary are bizarro world with parking lots. Winnipeg is bizarro universe. (http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Winnipeg,+MB&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=49.895056,-97.138935&spn=0.004347,0.015267&t=h&om=1)

That's a lotta parking

[freefarezone]

I personally think calgary should set up another big parkade on 9th ave, and then one just off the center street bridge, and one on 9th ave by the east village, and on off macleod trail, then have a shuttle that goes 9th ave east, 6th ave west, 3rd ave east or something and have one arrive at each parkade every 15 mins.

Would people really use these shuttles? If they had to park and then take a bus, why wouldn't they just use a park-and-ride in the suburbs? Unless something similar is happening with the the downtown parkades along LRT (ie convention centre) with people using the train...