12-05-2021, 07:12 PM
(12-05-2021, 12:20 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(12-04-2021, 11:39 PM)cherrypark Wrote: Re: Victoria Park I think Dan is right; there is a lot of space in the park but certain amenities and routes that are pretty busy during normal park-using hours (weekends, etc.). The kids area especially and at times the bridge routes, and more notable if you are not on foot.
Right. The park as a destination is not so busy (apart from the kids' play area), if you are there for a walk etc. But if considered as a bicycling route, it is fairly busy at times.
But, maybe that is not saying that we need another large park, but that we need to continue to improve the cycling grid so that people have options other than riding on the park paths.
I think there's an argument for both. But to be fair, if we used the green space we have more effectively, we could probably manage with the space we have.
Closing Jubilee Dr. to cars is an obvious example. Doing so would make the eastern part of the park much more usable. We could easily add a second playground in the area and spread out the number of people.
Honestly, space is not the issue anywhere in our city. How we use it is. And how we use it, is almost always for cars.