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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking
Re: B, it's not about the active transportation. It's about healthy streets and local economic activity. Take people off the street, and you affect the retail and restaurants that depend on those who are walking. Streets feel less safe, and likely are because there are fewer people on the lookout. Who wants to go a place that looks that dead?
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Shops can be connected to pedestrian corridor system. You’d need some renovation for extending it into existing areas, but in in the large chunks of Hamilton’s downtown that are flattened parking lots right now? Those could be developed for a system of pedestrian corridors. Just like alleyways, covered streets, and boardwalks the world over, pedestrian only areas can be some of the most attractive and thriving shopping options around, and have been successful for centuries.
As for the streets feeling less safe, if everyone is walking on the indoor system, what does it matter? Back alleys feel unsafe too, so you don’t walk there. You’re safer where there’s more pedestrians, so build a cityscape that encourages more pedestrians, rather than trying to convince more pedestrians to use the existing cityscape that’s been built for cars.
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