[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

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The upshot is, auto traffic gets calmer, people and businesses are attracted to the higher foot traffic, property values go up, etc. How applicable that is to Waterloo is a different question.

Oh, generally speaking a two way street is better than a one way street. But there are a ton of exceptions, for example when you want to make an impassable grid on side streets like in Toronto, or when you have arterial roads, such as erb and bridgeport. As I pointed out before arterial roads tend to be ugly one way or two way unless they are so wide than you can make them into boulevards with high speed lanes in the centre then trees then slow speed lanes on the side with ample parking. e.g.

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