[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

[tomh009]

Coincidentally enough, a blog post regarding the conversion of one-way street systems just passed across my radar.

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.

Sadly, the author doesn't seem to understand the difference between causality and mere correlation.

But after the couplet was returned to its two-way origins:

Steadily, crime fell, property values rose and retail revenues increased, he said. New investment followed, as residents and business owners rushed to take advantage of the improving landscape.

How do we know that this improvement was caused by the change from one-way to two-way streets? 

Locally in KItchener, crime has fallen and property values have increased in Cedar Hill.  Was there some hidden one-way street in the Cedar Hill neighbourhood that was converted to two-way?  Or could it possibly be that there are other possible causes for drops in crime and improvements in property values?