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Originally Posted by esquire
^ To Dave's point, if we end up having the barriers remain in place then good God the City needs to do something about that hideous bunker in front of 201 Portage. I don't know how they ever allowed such a terrible access point to the concourse to be built in the first place... it's narrow, inaccessible, ugly with its stark concrete, dark, dangerous from a CPTED perspective, hot in the summer and inevitably piss-smelling.
I don't think you could do any worse in terms of image for the concourse. It's horrible, literally as bad as it gets.
For those unfamiliar with it, here's a pic which accompanied a recent news story about a woman who was harassed in that very entrance.
Safety concerns underground have women calling for Portage and Main to be reopened
Welcome to Winnipeg! Our Civic Motto: IDGAF
(At least in the winter you can't smell the piss as much)
source: downtownwinnipegbiz.com |
There's literally nothing there to indicate to a person that that's how you cross the street. How many tourists or newcomers to the city are going to think, "Oh! I get it, I must just walk down into this sketchy unmarked piss bunker to get where I'm going."
Motkaluk would be such a disaster if she gets in. No more transit improvements, no more AT, no more investment in downtown... right as we are about to drag our city kicking and screaming into the 21st century, we risk stalling again and spending at least another 4 years being decades behind every other major city in Canada ....
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