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General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
(06-12-2015, 09:15 PM)mpd618 Wrote:
(06-12-2015, 10:17 AM)Owen Wrote: I understand the planning rationale for creating a corridor that induces development (and a long-term shift in population from the suburbs to condos along that corridor), but I really wish the LRT as more useful for more existing residents - meaning it had lines that extended out into the existing suburbs to the east and west and made it easy for people to come downtown as a destination.   I get it - that was way out of the budget ...

If you understand that the line is meant to intensify the core rather than the suburbs, then surely you understand that not having lines going into the suburbs isn't just a matter of budgets - it's also a question of intended land-use and density.

I get that - but the conversation here started with why people (i.e. the ones in suburbs in wards 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8) don't come downtown - and my point is that the LRT won't really help or encourage them to come downtown (except - perhaps - indirectly, via encouraging density and thus revitalizing the downtown and making it more attractive... but not directly via actually making it easier/practical to transport themselves downtown)
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RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Markster - 06-09-2015, 03:36 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by KWchick - 06-09-2015, 03:43 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by panamaniac - 06-09-2015, 03:51 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by KWchick - 06-09-2015, 03:53 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by tomh009 - 06-09-2015, 04:02 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by LakesidePark - 06-10-2015, 07:34 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by BuildingScout - 06-12-2015, 09:47 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by tomh009 - 01-16-2023, 09:09 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by CedarHillAlum - 01-17-2023, 03:55 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-12-2015, 10:17 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by panamaniac - 06-12-2015, 10:27 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by neonjoe - 06-12-2015, 10:57 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by tomh009 - 06-12-2015, 11:58 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by tomh009 - 06-12-2015, 12:10 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by BuildingScout - 06-12-2015, 12:17 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by panamaniac - 06-12-2015, 02:47 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-12-2015, 03:11 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by plam - 06-12-2015, 07:27 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by mpd618 - 06-12-2015, 09:15 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by DHLawrence - 06-12-2015, 09:43 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-15-2015, 10:38 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by BuildingScout - 06-15-2015, 10:53 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by panamaniac - 06-15-2015, 11:24 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by mpd618 - 06-15-2015, 04:15 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by REnerd - 06-15-2015, 09:54 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-15-2015, 10:03 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by tomh009 - 06-15-2015, 10:31 PM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Section ThirtyOne - 06-16-2015, 11:36 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-16-2015, 11:41 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Section ThirtyOne - 06-16-2015, 11:51 AM
RE: Mayfair Hotel - by Owen - 06-16-2015, 12:32 PM
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