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Originally Posted by logan5
It's a highway. You can plainly see that. No traffic lights. Deer crossing signs. It's a highway.
Like I said it's a nice amenity, but access isn't very good.
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They aren't highways, they are city streets, and there are definitely lights on them, though they are spaced far apart. The scale of the park is what determined the scale of the roadways around it as the park is a major barrier to traffic flow, so they required the roads around it to carry higher capacity.
Access is limited to a few points as it should be, this is the suburbs afterall (very vehicle oriented development). We don't need people walking across a busy street to gain access to a park when they can go to one of the many entry points. Also, as Chad alluded to, there is a ton of wildlife in the park, and it would be counter productive to not try and separate them from the roadways surrounding the park (for both motorists and the animals themselves). For a truly "urban" park, we have many in and around the inner city that are much more open and accessible (Prince's Island, St Patrick's Island, Central Memorial, Riverwalk...).
Now can we just see what Canadian cities have to offer without nitpicking everything? please!