04-09-2021, 07:54 PM
(04-09-2021, 05:22 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: R&T park is a total fail. There is absolutely no reason why it couldn’t have been designed with continuous buildings (with porticos, obviously) along the roads starting at the LRT station, with parking lots behind the buildings.
While I personally would like to see less parking, that isn’t my actual complaint; my complaint is that what they’ve built is bad for everybody. Same complaint I have about The Boardwalk.
The idea about “zoning problems” doesn’t make sense. If either the City or the University wanted to do it properly, and the other was at least not completely pig-headed about it, that could be solved.
It's not bad for everyone...it's only bad for folks who can conceive of walking farther than halfway out to the parking lot.
If you drive and never ever want to walk anywhere ever, it's actually pretty good.
Source: I worked there and I wasn't always an outspoken anti-establishment transportation guy.