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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
(01-16-2017, 12:56 AM)timc Wrote: And maybe I misremember, but doesn't it drop off fairly steeply into a valley there? What is the actual likelihood of any sort of meaningful development along that side of Courtland? I think that the physical geography restricts the amount of room for infrastructure between Blockline and Hayward, and they already needed to move a lot of earth to do what has been done. That is a great expense to add sufficient width for a sidewalk alongside that track that will not see any use for the foreseeable future.

I really believe that streets should have sidewalks on both side whenever possible, but compromises do need to be made.

Yes, exactly. I can't imagine that anything would get built here. A massive terraforming effort was required here for many months (almost a year!) just to get the topology correct for LRT. Nothing is getting built here.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Canard - 01-16-2017, 08:00 AM
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