Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Twice a day I hit that cross walk button, watch 100 vehicles have to stop and go and think about all the gas burned/wear and tear on vehicles/lost time and that at some point it must cost more than it would have to just build a short bridge over Memorial like any sane project would have done.
|
While it's easy to say they should have just built a pedestrian bridge over Memorial by the bridge, where would it go?
A bridge would need to be tall enough that the vehicles on Memorial can pass under it, and you need to have ramps to get people from ground level up to the height of the bridge.
Ramps take up a lot of space. Look at the other pedestrian bridges over Memorial (9A St, Prince's Island, Bridgeland C-Train, and Franklin C-Train). The ramps to access those bridges take up a lot of room.
There is no room for a ramp on the north side of Memorial near the bridge. To build one, the city would either have to buy and demolish one (or more) of the houses along Memorial there (which would not be cheap), or build the pedestrian bridge right at 8th Street and build the ramp in the middle of the street, blocking vehicular access between Memorial and 8th St (similar to what was done at 15th Ave across Macleod from the Stampede C-Train station). That would be the only real workable solution, but would cause uproar from people who use the 8th St-Memorial intersection on a regular basis.