I knew I'd heard before about the Izzy Asper road diet. Good stuff. It doesn't need to be that wide, and hopefully it cuts some of the traffic through there too. A lot of people believe it's some great way to get into downtown, but it really isn't. You can spend several light cycles trying to make a left onto Main. Hopefully this diet also kills the slip lanes for right turns on and off of Main. Those have no business in an urban area.
This talk about how well the Forks is run makes me think of another advantage housing offers: revenue. Right now, the Forks makes some good money off the Portage Place parkade, which has been an impediment to developing the rooftop tower pads there. In the long run, it would be great to see the Forks become self-sufficient and get all the money it needs from its own site. It would also be great if they could divest themselves of the PP parkade. And, like I've said before, parking could become a big-time losers in 10 to 15 years.
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Originally Posted by WolselyMan
Nah. Back then, we were too busy painstakingly paving over entire creeks throughout the downtown area to have found the time to dig a canal of any sorts.
Those were the good old days of the 1860s, when our city planner's understanding of hydrology could pretty much be summed up as "If you get rid of the creek, you'll get rid of the water as well!"
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Too true. Colony and Ross creeks could have made a great canal But even left natural, like Austin's downtown creeks, they would have made a great feature for our city.