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Originally Posted by SFUVancouver
I would disagree about the walkability - it's arguably the most urban, walkable area in Richmond - part along Number 3 Road, but it is pretty much a mish mash at this point. There are so many strip malls along Number 3 that it will take decades to replace them with coherent urban development, plus with no laneways, just about all of the site access is via curb cuts and driveways on Number 3. On weekends, when it seems like everyone in Richmond drives to go eat and shop along Number 3, the street is a parking lot. It's the only place in the region where I regularly see surface parking lots at shopping centres and strip malls full (as in Christmas rush full) on a regular basis on weekends.
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You're ignoring the fact that the residential sprawls for a couple kilometres along an arterial. Not walkable. They should have set Alderbridge as the nothern boundary for residential highrise and created a truly compact downtown. Then they could have made No 3 Rd between Alderbridge and Bridgeport light industrial, instead of barfing out business parks in east Richmond that are really only accessible by car.
If anyone wants to see future ghettos, check out the townhouse sprawl east of Garden City. Truly dreary neighbourhoods with no focal point.
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