R+T is very suburban?

[danbrotherston]

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.

I claim it’s bad even for the car drivers. If it was built my way, they could drive to the parking lot, walk into the building, and then at lunch they could walk to the next building under cover to hit the café (or whatever). As it is they have to walk (a) further and (b) in the rain. Same comment applies for visiting another building for a meeting.

Question: if the way it has been built is so fabulous, why is there a bridge linking the two OpenText buildings?

Same thing at the Boardwalk. Even for somebody who prefers driving everywhere, having the stores closer together and not separated by massive parking lots is more convenient.

Definitely not a) the parking is as close to the buildings as you could ever build, even getting in/out of a parking garage is longer than the 50 meter maximum walk to my car I had.

As for visiting another building, you can't do better than the bridge, and...ultimately, nobody is meeting with other companies in the office park.

Trust me, this is great for drivers...it might not be if it got filled out the way Toronto or Silicon Valley has, because there would be traffic, but that isn't the experience of most people in town. They think getting a light red is an intolerable traffic jam.