General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

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This year's budget included funding for making Gaukel fully pedestrian, Joseph to King. The city plan also mentions doing the same on Cedar St, from the ION station to the market.

I haven't seen much action on Cedar, but I'd consider Gaukel fully committed to at this point. The plan is that it will never reopen to cars after Charlie West is built.

I'm not sure what their solution to traffic accessing Charlie West, but I think they might end up having a lane open from Charles to Halls Lane.

Halls Lane is two way from Water St to Gaukel St. Charlie West has its garage entrance on Halls Lane, so I suspect that access will just be via Water St. The PUC building parking lot could easily be reconfigured for access via Halls Lane too. I think the Pizza Pizza would present the biggest issue, because they park their delivery vehicles behind the building just off Gaukel.

Also, I think it's Eby not Cedar that's getting the treatment near the market, but I haven't heard anything on that in a while.

Eby would certainly make more sense for the market, and is much less of a through street. Doesn't serve the ION to market connection nearly as well though.