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Originally Posted by RyeJay
To make a gamble: I will guess that Spring Garden Road will be freed from all its currently remaining parking lots, by, say, 2020. I'm being optimistic about the basilica's potential plans.
Parking along Spring Garden Road, however...
I keep hearing people complaining about the lack of parking gargage, though. I don't even know where would be an appropriate place to build one (perhaps closer toward Dal?).
I'm not even sure how close to full capacity the Parklane Mall's 440 unit garage is.
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One of the things I often find jarring when Google street-viewing or watching Youtube tours of US cities is the large amount of big parking garages right downtown. And it isn't just stereotypical sprawopolises like Dallas or Atlanta, but also cities we think of as being fairly transit friendly, like Portland OR, and Pittsburgh. It's one of the things I appreciate about major Canadian cities. These things are big, hulking bunkers, and even though they use space more efficiently than surface lots, are just as ugly if not uglier imo.
As it stands, we already have two huge above ground parking garages downtown (not counting hidden ones like the one at Park Lane) and I'd hope we can aim a little higher than building more.
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Originally Posted by Keith P.
...You can't move the buses you have now, so why would you add more? ...
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Because increasing the ratio of buses to cars allows traffic to move more freely, since transit requires fewer vehicles and road space to transport the same number of people.
You're right in that buses alone will not be enough. But you're wrong if you think we need expanded road capacity. All that will do is induce more car usage which is by far the most expensive way to transport people.
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