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Originally Posted by SebC
LRT expansion inducing sprawl and sprawl inducing LRT expansion aren't mutually exclusive. It's both.
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Oh absolutely. I get that it's more of a game of chicken and egg versus one or the other.
One of the reasons I get tripped up on the argument that outward LRT expansion induces sprawl is that a criterion for sprawl is that it is an auto-oriented pattern of development. Not to say that development can't be auto-oriented and have train service, because obviously examples abound in Calgary and elsewhere. I think that the two aspects are certainly at odds with each other though, philosophically. I think that it's more correct to say "LRT expansion, outward or otherwise, induces
development." It takes a lot more than the LRT expansion fit all the criteria for being sprawl. Unfortunately a lot of it has been.
This and other reasons make me lean more toward chicken whereas you might say egg.
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Originally Posted by SebC
The SE hospital is also gonna be a massive sprawl-inducer.
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Greenfield development at the edges, certainly. However, what's planned around the future South Hospital and Southeast LRT terminus isn't actually that bad. It makes a lot of positive steps away from some of the worst things about the historical approach to greenfield development in this city. Don't get me wrong, it's in the middle of freaking nowhere, and the expanses of crap in between it and any other "good" existing development is huge. Still, far from the worst examples of sprawl.
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