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Originally Posted by Slava
Well it’s lived experience. I drive past this a couple times a day, every day. Look at the map and it’s just plainly evident. Of course the developer stands to make a huge profit selling condos here, so they think it’s fine. The city trots out some study saying traffic was worse in 2014, so apparently that’s fine. It just ignores that in 2014 there was one less turning lane and the traffic was a complete fataing nightmare there, but sure…let’s go back to that?
The truth is, you can be in favour of density, affordable housing and even bike lanes without being in favour of every single project. Some of these proposals are just bad ideas.
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That’s the NIMBY argument though. Everyone person opposing anything has a lived experience that they believe is valid. Essentially you are denying the real data because it disagrees with your position.
Traffic will get back to the 2014 level, that’s just what traffic does. As other routes clog the 14th route will become desirable. You can win in traffic’s unless you reduce the average trip length.