General rating for this project

  • Great

    Votes: 23 33.8%

  • Very Good

    Votes: 33 48.5%

  • Good

    Votes: 9 13.2%

  • So So

    Votes: 3 4.4%

  • Not Very Good

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Terrible

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    68
CBBarnett said:
Looks amazing. Now it's time for the City to step up it's part on this hub as it finally has enough mass. 8th Street and 17th Ave streetscapes and sidewalk widenings need to get some love. The shitty condition of our nearby sidewalks and overly wide 8th Street is increasingly inconsistent (not to mention incredibly inaccessible/unfit for increasing pedestrian loads, wheelchairs, folks with mobility challenges) with the character and reality of this area of the neighbourhood. Let's reward good urban form, good urban culture, increasing pedestrian volumes with investment to match.
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I totally agree. Tomkins Park definitely needs some love as well. That could be such an amazing urban space, but I feel like it is relatively very underused given its location.
 
CBBarnett said:
Looks amazing. Now it's time for the City to step up it's part on this hub as it finally has enough mass. 8th Street and 17th Ave streetscapes and sidewalk widenings need to get some love. The shitty condition of our nearby sidewalks and overly wide 8th Street is increasingly inconsistent (not to mention incredibly inaccessible/unfit for increasing pedestrian loads, wheelchairs, folks with mobility challenges) with the character and reality of this area of the neighbourhood. Let's reward good urban form, good urban culture, increasing pedestrian volumes with investment to match.
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The whole of 8th street is a very underrated corridor. Not only one of the busiest inner city corridors - probably the busiest outside of Stephen Ave - it's still evolving and has yet more potential.
 
Surrealplaces said:
The whole of 8th street is a very underrated corridor. Not only one of the busiest inner city corridors - probably the busiest outside of Stephen Ave - it's still evolving and has yet more potential.
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4th street is probably the busiest of the north-south corridors, but yes, 8th is busy and could use some love.
 
CBBarnett said:
Looks amazing. Now it's time for the City to step up it's part on this hub as it finally has enough mass. 8th Street and 17th Ave streetscapes and sidewalk widenings need to get some love. The shitty condition of our nearby sidewalks and overly wide 8th Street is increasingly inconsistent (not to mention incredibly inaccessible/unfit for increasing pedestrian loads, wheelchairs, folks with mobility challenges) with the character and reality of this area of the neighbourhood. Let's reward good urban form, good urban culture, increasing pedestrian volumes with investment to match.
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Agreed. I expected it to look like Sunterra, but I see a lot more options for prepared foods.
 
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CBBarnett said:
Looks amazing. Now it's time for the City to step up it's part on this hub as it finally has enough mass. 8th Street and 17th Ave streetscapes and sidewalk widenings need to get some love. The shitty condition of our nearby sidewalks and overly wide 8th Street is increasingly inconsistent (not to mention incredibly inaccessible/unfit for increasing pedestrian loads, wheelchairs, folks with mobility challenges) with the character and reality of this area of the neighbourhood. Let's reward good urban form, good urban culture, increasing pedestrian volumes with investment to match.
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CBBarnett said:
Looks amazing. Now it's time for the City to step up it's part on this hub as it finally has enough mass. 8th Street and 17th Ave streetscapes and sidewalk widenings need to get some love. The shitty condition of our nearby sidewalks and overly wide 8th Street is increasingly inconsistent (not to mention incredibly inaccessible/unfit for increasing pedestrian loads, wheelchairs, folks with mobility challenges) with the character and reality of this area of the neighbourhood. Let's reward good urban form, good urban culture, increasing pedestrian volumes with investment to match.
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Is there any long term thinking about BRT service in the Beltline? A re-invented Beltline loop through downtown, Macleod, 17th Ave S, 8th st SW seems like an obvious route. Something like the MallRide in Denver.
 
zagox said:
Is there any long term thinking about BRT service in the Beltline? A re-invented Beltline loop through downtown, Macleod, 17th Ave S, 8th st SW seems like an obvious route. Something like the MallRide in Denver.
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Even a milk run shuttle bus that ran up and down 11/12th ave from one end to the other would be nice.
 
zagox said:
Is there any long term thinking about BRT service in the Beltline? A re-invented Beltline loop through downtown, Macleod, 17th Ave S, 8th st SW seems like an obvious route. Something like the MallRide in Denver.
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A streetcar would be better. It would increase our hipster credit score ;)
 
Zoom said:
Even a milk run shuttle bus that ran up and down 11/12th ave from one end to the other would be nice.
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Social Justice said:
A streetcar would be better. It would increase our hipster credit score ;)
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I think 17th Ave is a better fit. Run in mixed traffic. Run from the stamp shop that is now a pizza place to 13th Street. Buy two vehicles and just run them back and forth. 2.5 km, longer than the South Lake Union Streetcar in Seattle run. Ridership will be pathetic, but the objective would be to draw convention goers further west along 17th and cements the status as a shopping destination, not be a super useful commuter route.

I don't think there is actually a useful route for serving the 14th Street, 19th Ave, 4th Street, 13th ave box + Mission.
 
In about a week this sidewalk has made it on the list of being one of the most woefully over-loaded and under-designed pieces of transportation infrastructure this city has on it's books (and it was already bad before Urban Fare opened).

On the weekend there was single-file traffic with bunches of pedestrians waiting as if it's a highway under-construction down to one lane and alternating directions :rolleyes:

8th Street, between The Royal and 15th Ave.
https://goo.gl/maps/WxZNjaXJbaMx3shn9
 
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