04-10-2024, 10:06 AM
"Pedestrian bridge proposed over the Waterloo expressway dies before its time"
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...d472d.html
Excerpts:
The first blow came from the Ministry of Transportation, which operates the expressway and deemed the pedestrian bridge unnecessary in rejecting it.
The ministry concluded that people can use the current Northfield Drive bridge to reach the train station from the Kraus site. The current bridge provides sidewalks and cycling lanes above the expressway.
However, the current bridge also carries trains and traffic. A city hall report concluded that pedestrians and cyclists may be dissuaded from crossing on it, preferring a friendlier way to access transit.
[...]
In January the developer asked a provincial planning tribunal to overrule city-imposed conditions meant to “protect for a potential pedestrian bridge over the Conestoga Parkway,” according to lawyer Jennifer Meader, acting for Solowave.
That’s because the transportation ministry rejected the bridge and because “the city has recently suggested that (the developer) would be responsible for 50 per cent of the costs,” Meader wrote.
Solowave now intends to exclude lands from its housing project that would have been used for the expressway bridge.
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The Kraus housing development could be home to more than 6,000 people. It’s currently planned at 3,353 units and it could take 15 years to complete, the developer says. Towers range from 18 to 35 storeys.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...d472d.html
Excerpts:
The first blow came from the Ministry of Transportation, which operates the expressway and deemed the pedestrian bridge unnecessary in rejecting it.
The ministry concluded that people can use the current Northfield Drive bridge to reach the train station from the Kraus site. The current bridge provides sidewalks and cycling lanes above the expressway.
However, the current bridge also carries trains and traffic. A city hall report concluded that pedestrians and cyclists may be dissuaded from crossing on it, preferring a friendlier way to access transit.
[...]
In January the developer asked a provincial planning tribunal to overrule city-imposed conditions meant to “protect for a potential pedestrian bridge over the Conestoga Parkway,” according to lawyer Jennifer Meader, acting for Solowave.
That’s because the transportation ministry rejected the bridge and because “the city has recently suggested that (the developer) would be responsible for 50 per cent of the costs,” Meader wrote.
Solowave now intends to exclude lands from its housing project that would have been used for the expressway bridge.
[...]
The Kraus housing development could be home to more than 6,000 people. It’s currently planned at 3,353 units and it could take 15 years to complete, the developer says. Towers range from 18 to 35 storeys.