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Originally Posted by Nowhereman1280
^^^ I'm not sure what you think I'm arguing here. I only think they should finish the top ring road by extending it to the street behind Swissotel. I also don't think the road should have any direct access to Wacker, you should have to make multiple turns off Wacker to get into the neighborhood. The reason I think they should do that is that it will go a long way towards creating some semblance of a grid in this challenging area of town to get around in. It will create a second road that runs parallel to Wacker and feeds into the existing road between Aqua and Swissotel. I'm all for more pedestrian walk ways between the towers to allow people to walk between the ring road and Wacker, but I think the ring road really needs to be completed.
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That's fine, too, if it's structurally possible.
That whole Wacker cul-de-sac just strikes me as really weird, unattractive, and unfinished. The only proposals I've seen have turned it into a service drive/dropoff for the Arquitectonica building, which is a really weird way to use that space. Linking it into LSE stops it from being a dead-end.
I'm against city-owned cul-de-sacs on principle - the city should be maintaining streets for
everybody, not just the people who live along it. If residents want a cul-de-sac they don't have to share with the rest of the city, then they should pay the full cost of maintenance and upkeep on that pavement, as well as any utilities beneath.