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Originally Posted by Metro-One
Oh I wasn’t trying to completely single Calgary out, it is just by far the Prarie city that I have the most personal experience with.
There is nothing wrong with reserving some ROW for future highway expansion, but many of the roads there do this to an excessive degree that does work against good urbanism, but I wasn’t blaming this factor for the poor suburban realm. In all honesty it is just a symptom of it IMO.
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For the record, I won't be offended if you single out Calgary for it's ugly suburbs, because they objectively are. The materials used are the main culprit, but it's also a harder place to beautify when there are no natural trees to hide the ugly - it's just all there out in the open.
As for the ROW, I wouldn't say it's a symptom or a cause, just unrelated - if it was Stoney NW you took. Most people here are pretty happy the province built a road that is capable of handling the traffic through there effectively indefinitely while leaving room for other utilities and not hindering future generations with having to squeeze in roads elsewhere. It's true that the suburbia up there is exceptionally ugly, but whatever, they are happy in their shitty suburbs and I'd rather energy was spent making our nice inner city communities nicer, while still maintaining affordability.