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Originally Posted by tripin_billie
That is my biggest complaint about the city of Calgary. The sprwling subdivisions that have the same prefix for every street, and those stgreets wind any which way they want. So aggrevating. Call me boring, but I like cities to try to stay to some sort of grid. the older sections of Calgary did this. Straight streets with rows of houses. Now, all it is is randam winding street after another. The city of Calgary needs to stand up to developers and enforce stricter guidelines as to the development of neighbourhoods. I want a grid!! (I know, I'm boring)
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On the one hand, I do like the quiet traffic, park placement and parking abundance inherent in the modern cul-de-sac type subdivisions... on the other hand, they tend to be rather inefficient. A well planned grid system can have the same low traffic, park and parking amenties as well, all while being more efficient and taking up less of a footprint.
However, I'm referring more to how they stack development after development along the same major road, like Macleod Trail, without the construction of an additional arterial road (or roads), (or LRT line) and choke the life out of it. The city needs to hold the developers accountable as well, and force them to help with infrastructure costs that their lucrative developments require.