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Originally Posted by Stormer
They installed curbs in front of the Cornwall main entrance yesterday and it looks likely are ready to pave. Paving is complete around Rose Street. The street looks much narrower. Current planners' obsession with walkability to the detriment of traffic and parking is going to be a disaster in my mind. Downtown needs suburbanites. They all hate coming downtown and this is not making it more attractive.
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It is too early for me to say whether you are right or wrong about this so I won't do that. However, as someone who has worked downtown for 15 years and am walking on 11th regularly I do have an alternative opinion.
11th Avenue does have a lot of pedestrian traffic. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if it is in fact the street with the most in the city. This in addition to it being a major transit transfer place means it is also the only place in the city where I regularly think the sidewalk isn't big enough. Often one will have to walk through people waiting to get on a bus with a bit of difficulty getting around all the awkward placements of transit shelters and narrowing sidewalks in places. If there is any place in the city that could use better pedestrian infrastructure, this is it.
On the other hand parking on this street around the Cornwall Centre was already very minimal, very few people park on 11th avenue itself. My only concern with the change is really with transit a lot of people use transit in that area, far more than people parking, and I would be concerned about anything that would make it more difficult for buses to exit their loading area.
Long story short. Let's give a few years and report back here to see how opinions have changed for the better or worse.
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