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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
What you said.
But this, apparently, is what the people of Salmon Arm BC want in a capital for all Canadians blah blah blah
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I bike through here all the time, and there is a ton of space in this corridor. When I imagine the changes they're talking about, I imagine the city-side lanes becoming 2 directions and the river-side lanes becoming a big bike path a-la Sunday bike-dayz.
What's the point of all this? Its not like we're congested and biking with the auto traffic all along the riverfront? The only pedestrians are mainly weekend warriors looking at the inukshuks built by the leathery guy near tunney's pasture.
Even if we dig up those extra lanes and put a slightly smaller bike path, the entire 'linear park' thing will look EXACTLY the same, but with more traffic congestion for the poor Gatineau suckers who don't want to pay Ottawa real-estate prices to live near their work, waiting an hour to turn onto the bridge during rush-hour.
If anything, the entire parkway should be moved as close as possible to the city, made into regular city street blocks, with new mixed-use-jargon-words development along the river front, to artificially increase the density to 4000+ ppl/km to force animation of the space
Which will never, never, ever, never happen. The canal in front of the NAC is more likely to become animated (LOL) before the entire SJAM linear park parkway greenspace belt.
Having said all that snarkyness, I am in support of the plan. The parkway is ridiculous, its like the entire land area of downtown for a single road.