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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon
I doubt much would be happening on the underpass alignment yet. To my knowledge, the neighbourhood association is still fighting the city on this one.
They're pissed that the city wants to keep Venables and Prior as the main traffic carrying street in the neighbourhood.
The city proposed calming Venables/Prior at the same time as installing the underpass. It's the usual slowly trying to decide if they want to 🞵🞵🞵🞵 or blow, and doing both poorly. I think its ridiculous that they spent all these years investigating other alignments and have gone back to Prior. So much face palm.
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The underpass was approved by the city, so I don't think the Strathcona Residents have much ability to get that revisited. The holdup would be if the Port and/or senior governments don't pay for it - there's not supposed to be any cost to the City. We'll see if that money comes forward, but there's nothing the City or residents could do to halt the twin tracking, as far as I know, and that's going forward anyway. Once it's complete, and the Centerm expansion, the amount of train movements will presumably close the road down even more often than today if no underpass gets built.
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