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Originally Posted by Jor D
Widening streets.?
Think about it this way. You don't spend the money on bayers road. You don't spend the money on the Bedford highway. You plan. You plan your city to be a honeycomb of communities. People live near their work. People need to do this in the future. But as city planners we need to make that possible for them. And where that can't happen we provide LRT and true BRT systems. (There are train buses on wheels that can run on alleyways up hills or flat). Look at the neighborhood of Rockingham for instance. That doesn't need a Bedford highway expressway but instead that section of Bedford highway needs to be Rockinghams main street with cafés, restaurants and boutiques, and dentists and offices with its neighborhood drug store. Yes! Rockinghams main street. Put all that street widening money in a fund for future LRT'S and BRT. Develope neighborhoods around or near work places. When it comes to downtown. ...build high rise econo apartments not just condos because the people who work on the high rise offices are mostly receptionists and building cleaners...etc not to mention the many shopkeepers and blue collar downtown workers. Why are we building high end residential where the middle class can't afford.
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Or we could just have the LRT/BRT you propose and anybody could feasibly and work/live anywhere.
To have good bus transit though, Bayers will definitely have to be widened.
High rise econo towers? This is Halifax... I like your vision, but it would require the anti-widening crowd also not be the anti-height crowd. It would also require a huge cultural shift that I'm for... but its not reflected in the philistine consumption patterns of those who choose to live in the suburbs as opposed to living on the peninsula which still has affordable housing in the north and west end (Not Mcmansions though). God forbid anybody would walk to work from the west end.