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Originally Posted by YOWetal
The do not add capacity because pedestrians and bikers are not over capacity anywhere in the city.
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You really gotta inform yourself before responding. I'm talking about projects like Bank St. South widening or the Airport Road reconfiguration. That doesn't have to do with bike lanes or pedestrians. These suburban projects are all about car lanes. Bikes lanes and sidewalks are secondary goals. And these are routes that are congested maybe less than an hour in total per day. And there's literally a billion dollars budgeted towards low yield projects like this.
You can rant all you want. But there's no getting around physics. Car lanes are expensive to build and maintain. The more of them we build, the bigger the fiscal hole. So either they raise taxes or cut services. Or both. Not liking this choice and whining doesn't take it away.
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Originally Posted by YOWetal
It's fine to say in theory but my point is city owned land is a goldmine and we don't need a 10 year process to have some subsidized housing in every project. We also don't need to protect scrub green space next to transit stations. Many of our above ground stations are surrounded by it. I mentioned Bayview as it's city land but Hurdman is another example with scrubby green space on three sides. I think we traded with the NCC and some is owned by them but if they city still owns any corner that is a quick $10 million in our pocket.
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Sure. Sell that land. They can collect the one-time gain. I agree with that. Doesn't fix the fundamental problem though. Keep in mind this city got a half billion dollar bailout last year. There isn't half a billion dollars worth of land to sell every year.
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