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Originally Posted by Stryker

honestly I think mun should come to its senses and start diverting resources to secondary campuses.

That's the sort of thinking that brought us the Marine Institute on Ridge Road in 1985. It's in a terrible location and has made a permanent hash of transit planning in the east end. I'm not sure how much space was available around the Parade Street campus before the Harvey Road fire of 1992, but there would have been room to expand had MI stayed there until after the fire. There was also ample room on the MUN campus at the time, which makes the terrible location all the more infuriating.

There's still space to expand the main campus at MUN. The university has been quietly buying up the houses on Clark Place, and demolishing St. John's College and Coughlan College would make room for large buildings that could be much better connected with the main campus. The main advantage of the single campus is that it creates a strong transit node within an already walkable neighbourhood. There aren't many of those in St. John's.

Originally Posted by J_Murphy

So did I. What year did you graduate?

I took the project course in 2014, but a partial course load in the last year of my degree means that I need two more technical electives to graduate. The Westerland Road study was part of a wider pedestrian safety review for St. John's. Due to the knock-on effects I mentioned above, our final recommendation for Westerland Road was literally putting a handle on the outside of an exterior door in the Field House so people could climb the stairs from Pedagogue's Close up to the existing overpass.