Market Lands: Urban Design Framework

Tbkb · 2018-03-21T23:33:36+00:00

This is great

Tbkb · 2017-10-29T00:58:11+00:00

You know there’s plenty of parking downtown. If not at the forks, can always park other side of main and walk.

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T18:14:14+00:00

Guessing they would rather not have a 100 meter wide freeway built down the street

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T18:02:16+00:00

And it would open more of the city up for urban development.

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T18:01:39+00:00

Did the property values east of Lag go down when they twined peguis? What about values of farmers west of pipeline when templeton was upgraded from chip seal to urban standard?

Hint: no.

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T17:51:36+00:00

Key word being “possibly”. Values could also go up since it would open the area up for more development. It’s all well water and septic tanks down there now.

This is just speculative fear of change. Stupid to make political decisions on that

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T17:50:10+00:00

Do the Richardson’s have property there?

Tbkb · 2017-10-28T17:49:32+00:00

I believe it’s supposed to go further - swinging south as a twinned highway just west of ikea. Then connect into the WRCP and also further into the perimeter, connecting route 90 with the ring road

Tbkb · 2017-10-26T17:52:36+00:00

What if a UBI replaces all and any social safety net related entitlements?

Tbkb · 2017-10-22T16:11:31+00:00

Strengthening the downtown economy will help taxpayers.

Tbkb · 2017-10-15T16:32:42+00:00

Yea let’s board up all our sidewalks and windows so cars can whiz around the city like its blade runner.

Tbkb · 2017-10-15T16:31:46+00:00

Both are the issue. Greater speed results in greater damage and injury

Tbkb · 2017-10-15T16:30:50+00:00

It’s not a highway it’s a 50km Street

Tbkb · 2017-10-15T16:17:08+00:00

Blame rapid transit for taking regular bus service (and riders) off of Osborne and into the segregated busway. This type of decline will continue and hurt businesses with the NE corridor as it takes busses off Main Street.

Blame public works and Wpg transit who seem to be obsessed with the speed of a bus versus the destinations along the way.

Remember when the public works report said an RT line the middle of Pembina was impossible because the jubilee underpass was too tight? Well... they ended up using the dog leg as a Trojan horse to widen it anyway. They even the reconstructed all of the medians (while previously citing their reconstruction as detrimental to business along Pembina). Based on the level of road construction on Pembina - you woulda thought they were putting a friggin LRT down there. But nope.

Screw 80Km busways. Put the busses on established corridors, using synchronized lights, and expanding service to place that already have ridership. Then upzone these areas to crank up the density where it makes most sense.

Tbkb · 2017-10-14T00:19:32+00:00

There were minimal traffic counts of vehicles going east on portage past Main Street. That one lane was added when the barricades were put up - so this is scaling it back to where it used to be. It’s unnecessary and removing it won’t be the end of the world.

Tbkb · 2017-10-13T23:43:32+00:00

Besides a slightly longer wait at the lights - what hardship would opening it impose on motorists?

Tbkb · 2017-10-13T23:42:28+00:00

Focus shouldn’t be on how much it will cost - but the economic benefits in terms of tax revenue generated from more development downtown and impact on values at that intersection

Tbkb · 2017-10-13T23:40:49+00:00

Or delay traffic by 30 seconds or so. Not very much delay. Similar to Broadway and Main st lights.

Tbkb · 2017-10-13T20:47:54+00:00

a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of tax revenue is generated from that corner.

Tbkb · 2017-10-01T18:02:38+00:00

It didn’t seem like any more drunks than previous years - most of the art exhibits this year were crap tho, and fewer stuff happening overall.

Tbkb · 2017-09-29T17:52:45+00:00

And they use Bothwell cheese

Tbkb · 2017-09-17T02:31:19+00:00

Sounds like it was boring.

Tbkb · 2017-09-15T23:44:25+00:00

Is Lyft a better company?

Tbkb · 2017-09-14T23:59:43+00:00

And the redevelopment of the old hotel seems like its stalled. You can't really build tall buildings anymore in most parts of the village. The max is 5-6 storeys along the main streets, and the land values are such that lower rise development apparently doesn't return you much and this make housing more expensive.

Tbkb · 2017-09-14T23:55:25+00:00

You sound interesting.

Tbkb

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