Marcus CLS
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Photos taken April 17, 2024 West end of New Orchard Station
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I tend to agree. I think they've actually done a quite good job overall with what they had to work with. I think this is going to be an improvement for our city.It's unfortunately not possible to remove one or the other. Both streets have very different function, with Byron being a local street providing access to driveways and parking lots, along with other local streets, while Richmond acts as a crosstown street and main street (and not a stroad, which is nice). You see a lot of this in Europe, three roads with trees in between, with the centre road being an artery and the two streets on the periphery acting as slow local streets. I think this guy is an example: https://www.google.com/maps/place/A...2.3675734!4d4.9041389!16zL20vMGszcA?entry=ttu
The Byron/Richmond rebuild is quite good, but for sure it's not perfect, Woodroofe being one of the weaker points. Still a major improvement over what we had since the streetcars were taken out.
Keep in mind this was the last stretch of the Transitway to close (June 2022). They wanted to keep it open as long as possible. After it closed, they had to demolish the embankment that connected the bus loop with Scott (replaced with the new Goldenrod Bridge), they had to demolish Westboro Station. They had to dig out the trench for Kitchi Sibi Station.Not gonna lie, it's incredibly disappointing to see just one track bed laid at this stage.
It's already slated for a public housing project.Any chance that big lot & parking can get redeveloped with added density in the near future?