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Originally Posted by RW99
They can take over the land in the NE corner of Center & 16th. I've never seen anyone go into that dental office  . But it would kind of suck to come all the way down from the North to get dropped off there. Commute times would actually increase for anyone coming from the North. |
One of the interesting elements to this is that the land at the SE intersection of 16th Avenue and Centre Street was acquired as part of the 16th Avenue widening/improvement project in 2006-2008 for the extra lane and right hand turn lane. Then before the Green Line alignment was chosen (official plans at the time had it in the Nose Creek valley), the City put the land up for sale again and sold it (not sure who bought it). Now they might need it again for the Green Line station access, bus loop, etc.
The lack of a comprehensive long-term transit plan, and particularly that original Nose Creek plan was damaging in many ways, and this is one example.
Actually that whole 16th Avenue project should have included bus only lanes or some other measure for the soon-to-be-implemented north crosstown BRT. Again though, it was one of the last projects in a previous era of transportation projects where the various City departments (roads, transit, land use planning) were silo-ed and didn't come up with a better plan that took into account each other's long term needs.