05-16-2024, 01:05 PM
It feels like the biggest problems are ones where highways divided existing neighbourhoods or were built without appropriate connections between those neighborhoods.
The new highway 7 doesn’t feel like it would be like that. Development between Guelph and Kitchener should stay south of it and have regular connections. It feels like it would facilitate better neighbourhoods in these areas (mixture of low/medium/high density residential with amenities).
Right now every attempt to build anything denser than a townhouse is met with NIMBYs who scream about traffic, parking, and lack of transit. Which we’ll never get as long as we keep building massive sprawled single detached home subdivisions.
It also feels like the new highway 7 avoids another terrible creation of a 4 land “high-speed” connecting road between cities that also tries to double as a local road for businesses and residents.
The new highway 7 doesn’t feel like it would be like that. Development between Guelph and Kitchener should stay south of it and have regular connections. It feels like it would facilitate better neighbourhoods in these areas (mixture of low/medium/high density residential with amenities).
Right now every attempt to build anything denser than a townhouse is met with NIMBYs who scream about traffic, parking, and lack of transit. Which we’ll never get as long as we keep building massive sprawled single detached home subdivisions.
It also feels like the new highway 7 avoids another terrible creation of a 4 land “high-speed” connecting road between cities that also tries to double as a local road for businesses and residents.