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Originally Posted by passwordisnt123
This just in: file photo found of Randall Denley's plan to bulldoze the Greenbelt.
Any developments of the greenbelt would be nothing more than shitty auto-dependent suburban sprawl. If we really care about climate change, we need to get way more serious about intensification, disincentivizing car use and encouraging public transit and active means of transportation wherever possible. |
But we aren't really serious about alternate transportation modes including public transit. We can tell because we still build new subdivisions based on auto-dependence and 30 minute bus schedules if we are lucky.
I totally agree, building on the Greenbelt will just build the same auto-dependent neighbourhoods. An example is Wateridge at Rockcliffe. A so-called new transit neighbourhood inside the Greenbelt with little transit. Look at Greystone Village in Ottawa East. Still the same 30 minute transit schedule. Outside the Confederation Line corridor itself, we have no intention in improving public transit. Until we stop designing based on capacity only, things will not change. More likely, auto-dependence will get worse.
A perfect example is DND headquarters at the Carling Campus. We are designing public transit to that location strictly based on capacity instead of trying to induce more people to use transit, or more truthfully, to get people not switch to private vehicles, which we know is happening.
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