General Road and Highway Discussion

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To "improve walkability" - um, how?  And for who?  It's all houses along there.  I never see any pedestrians.  And where would they be walking to/from?  Uptown Waterloo 3 km to their house?  I doubt it...

My thoughts exactly as I was driving this stretch of the road just last weekend. Yes two way streets in general are nice, but both Bridgeport and Erb St. are such a zoning mess (single story bungalows in a four lane one way street, really?) that I'm not sure there is anything we can do to make them better. They are too far gone. Let's concentrate in parts of the city where efforts will have more visible rewards (i.e. increased heights in Uptown, rezoning of University Av. between King and Phillip, etc).