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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
My comment came from the plans for no significant improvements for transit on this stretch of Bank Street. So, it remains 100% a stroad. It is not that I favour a stroad, but like the old saying, we can put lipstick on a pig but it remains a pig. It will be very difficult to convert this to an urban street. I watch a couple of efforts to build sidewalk facing buildings, and don't see this being very successful and producing momentum. If anything, I am seeing increasing business failure.
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No doubt it will take a while to replace building stock over that stretch, but it has to start with turning this into a regular street. They have done that north of Walkley, though from that intersection down it is going to be very similar to what currently exists.
There won't be improvements to transit speeds, but the pedestrian improvements will improve the transit experience, as transit users are pedestrians too. Having gotten off the bus at stops along Bank, it is currently pretty miserable to access the stops and businesses where you have 4-6 lanes of traffic whizzing by a couple of feet away.
Personally I don't think transit speeds there are bad. I'd rather see frequency improvements with priority measures to improve reliability (i.e. bus priority lanes at stops rather than right turn lanes).