GO Transit

[westwardloo]

I mean, sure...but like all GO things, this puts the car before the horse...or rather the parking lot before everything.

I.e., building it at boardwalk would be done because there's tons of space for parking, instead of because there's a good land use plan in place to develop lots of dense urban fabric around the station.

I.e., the opposite of what GO says they want to do, and also the opposite of good transit planning practice.

Yeah, it's unclear to me that boardwalk could be intensified without some major redesigning. This doesn't really make sense as a node for intensification.

Which is really just a symptom of poor planning by the city of waterloo, city of kitchener and the Region. The Boardwalk could have been a great little node at the edge of town, if it was planned correctly from the get go. The area could have easily been a mixed use development centred around a public square close to the railtrack in anticipation of a Kitchener west GO train. This probably would have put the station on the Provinces lists for potential stations if we had planned for it from the beginning. Instead we went for a slightly upgraded big box store "power centre" with a bunch of office buildings. unfortunately the boardwalk was planned horribly from the start and is almost impossible to correct without a significant investment.