11-04-2021, 09:35 AM
I do like the modern wood timber buildings. That's great...or at least, has great potential.
It's actually got good bicycle access to the south, you can take the MUT along King St. to the trail behind the Manulife Building, and get to much of Waterloo and Kitchener. It's even winter maintained. There's only a small chance of you being run over at the highway interchange. To the north, it's much worse...you can ride through the mall, which is probably the best option. You can get to Northfield, which we all know is world famous for being bad.
Which really does bring me to the main point. This is 500 meters from an LRT station, but unless you want to run across 8 lanes of high speed (like 80+ km/h) traffic, it's going to take you a kilometer walk to get to the LRT station. As is a pattern with the LRT somehow, pedestrian access was not a priority.
It's actually got good bicycle access to the south, you can take the MUT along King St. to the trail behind the Manulife Building, and get to much of Waterloo and Kitchener. It's even winter maintained. There's only a small chance of you being run over at the highway interchange. To the north, it's much worse...you can ride through the mall, which is probably the best option. You can get to Northfield, which we all know is world famous for being bad.
Which really does bring me to the main point. This is 500 meters from an LRT station, but unless you want to run across 8 lanes of high speed (like 80+ km/h) traffic, it's going to take you a kilometer walk to get to the LRT station. As is a pattern with the LRT somehow, pedestrian access was not a priority.