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Originally Posted by Kitchissippi
The best thing the city can do is extend electric LRT beyond the Greenbelt and into each of the suburban "town centres". The induce redevelopment and intensification of the big box complexes and the sea of parking lots around them.
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I Agree:
"The belt should be breached to facilitate transit and create neighbourhoods on a human scale" (me Jan 27)
Let the LRT breach the Greenbelt toward various "town centres" to intensify those town centres and make them more human friendly and useful. This way, cars are taken off the roads and we save on infrastructures.
A good example is Innes Rd in Orleans with all its shopping malls and immense parking lots that are nearly empty most of the time 24/7. Why can't there be an LRT to take people downtown to, say, the new LRT Campus station to be built?
Most of the people in the east end work in the east end or downtown anyway. That's why the 417 westward clears out in the morning as soon as you go past the Metcalfe ramp.
Get rid of the belt in "Greenbelt" but save the green and make it better.
The old Nortel campus, Q-C Hospital, Nepean Sportsplex and the airport are all part of NCC's greenbelt. They don't have to be.