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Originally Posted by johnnyhamont
This is such a car-dependent location, there's no way 650 units of housing will create sufficient demand for public transit. Even if a bus route brought people between GOTL and downtown Stoney Creek every 15 minutes all day, stopping here on the way, I don't think more than a handful of people could make a go of life here without a car. I'm a big advocate for density, and this will propel our community in the right direction regarding housing needs, but in the wrong direction regarding environmental sustainability.
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Eventually there will be enough demand. Send the bus to connect to Winona, this development, Costco, the retail, and then through Fifty Point, I think you would have enough demand to have some sort of basic service frequency. You would get people from Stoney Creek taking it out here to go to the retail too, it wouldn't just serve local residents.
This area is always going to be car dependent, doesn't mean it needs to be 100% so.