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Originally Posted by Bdog
According to their regression analysis, the single biggest argument that resonated for those who wanted the intersection open was the we should design downtown for pedestrians as well as cars.
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This is something Team Open seemed to heavily ignore. Things like the getting pedestrian countdown lights and better snow clearing on sidewalks downtown is going to go a lot further to improving an already very walkable downtown than opening up a single intersection.
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Originally Posted by Andy6
I think their best strategy would have been to lobby behind the scenes for a referendum question that allowed for some middle-ground options between outright "yes" and outright "no".
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The challenge is the plebiscite question was presented by councillors that seemed to be strongly opposed to the opening of Portage and Main. Adding a third choice along the line of "need more info" could have won the question but might ultimately be a soft "yes open it". Forcing those soft yes votes into hard yes and hard no camps pushed a lot of them into hard no as they lacked information they needed, ie a study of the impact to traffic on all of downtown that was done professionally and shared openly. The study that was somewhat public focused
only on the impact to the flow through P&M.
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