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I recall hearing that Park Lane was originally designed to take advantage of the popularity of Spring Garden Road, only to then realize that most customers were window shopping as they walked down the street. There is some really good parking in City Centre Atlantic, the Doyle and Park Lane which is as cheap as metered parking. The new Mills building will have a load on parking. My only issue is that cars do use Spring Garden road to loop around when they have to do another pass in search of on-street parking. |
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The poor Uber eats drivers are going to get screwed here. This may permanently lock in the current situation of congestion on all the side streets and that they have to go up to Sackville or down to Morris and loop all the way around when approaching from the west.
This is just going to make Sackville and Morris more traffic-heavy and it's already a serious problem on Sackville. |
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As for cyclists, let's hope they don't get into a disagreement with one of those Transit buses that will be zipping along. |
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And I mean, yeah, I have dropped off an elderly or not-very-mobile relative within a block of a location and then gone to find parking. They have to wait a bit. That's just part of having a busy city centre. And if someone is so mobility-impaired they can't hobble the aforementioned block, they should probably have a wheelchair anyway (and I'm hoping the SGR redesign makes life easier for wheelchair users). |
Gotta say it again... but differently. If this is what passes as a transit improvement in this city then we're f##ked.
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You have no idea what it means for someone who can get around slowly, deliberately and with some assistance to be told "get a wheelchair". Geezus. It seems that all the planners have lost the plot of late. |
Some photos of the streetscaping progress (from today). Lots of activity in the past couple of weeks, looks like they might hit their end of year completion target.
https://i.imgur.com/ALLPvHXh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/dxceCUNh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/BqIObtah.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/QC6UM6Mh.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/diejn1Ih.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/dmXOeNhh.jpg |
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My father-in-law spent the last years of his life very impaired in terms of mobility. It limited where he could go and where my family could spend time with him, snd made very apparent the needless impediments to the disabled in our everyday environments. But there’s a difference between accommodating disability and ensuring every single store or business comes with instantaneous drive-up access, whatever the other costs may be. |
Would transit-only mean that cross traffic on Birmingham and Dresden would be shut down as well? If not, then accessibility would be less of an issue, no?
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I suppose the overnight reprieve is more to allow for delivery vehicles. The city really doesn't want any private vehicles downtown otherwise. By making this exception (for local delivery traffic) however, it allows the city to maintain the illusion that they are still "car friendly"............. |
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Seems like a strange way to 'plan'.
"Oh, traffic hasn't been able to drive on SGR during construction. Hmmm... since drivers are already used to not driving there, why don't we just not let anybody drive there again? It would be cool to have SGR as pedestrian only." "Yeah... but what about our reputation as a transit-oriented city?" "Never thought about that. OK, let's let buses on it, but only buses." "Loud, diesel spewing buses will take away from the pedestrian experience, though." "Doesn't matter... it looks good on paper." "What about deliveries to businesses?" "Well, they've made out fine during construction. But... let's open up the street to traffic overnight so they can't say we're not thinking of their needs." "Yeah... nobody will care late at night as the only people there will be the drunks coming from the bars." "Sounds like a plan!" "Man, that's the best 10 minutes of planning that we've spent all year!" "Let's take an extra long coffee break to celebrate!" *High fives* :D |
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:haha::haha::haha: I can see this happening very easily. "Hey guys, lets get together for another 15 minute planning session next Friday morning too. I think it would be a great idea to ban traffic on Barrington Street as well! We can all go to Starbucks afterwards to grab some lattes.......... |
Look out, Bulldog Sue Uteck is saying HRM Planning pulled a sneaky double-cross. You don’t want her going on the warpath…
https://halifax.citynews.ca/local-ne...oposal-4805585 |
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The SGABA certainly seems to feel like they've been blindsided by city planning. It does seem like a sneaky double cross. Sue Uteck will certainly raise a stink over this at city council. She won't take any guff from Waye Mason, that's for sure! This could make for a very interesting upcoming city council session. Don't forget your popcorn......... |
I was going to say something, as a wheelchair user, but I go distracted by the Stadtler and Waldorf routine. :haha: :notacrook:
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Thanks for the photos. I am surprised there are still some utility poles up on SGR. I guess those are coming down? I wonder about some of the side streets.
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