Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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I can see it from my office window. I'm about 500 metres away and it looks good from here. Especially with everything being so brown it's nice to see the splash of colour.
So I can't help but notice there is a fence and some landscaping on the north end of the bridge at 8th st. I was under the impression that they were planning on moving the pedestrian crosswalk from 7th to 8th when the bridge was complete, no? Does any have some more information on this?
As a big supporter of this bridge, or more importantly what it will do to my commute time, I'm not going to be impressed if I have to walk all the way to the LRT bridge to cross memorial anyway...
Therefore, based on community feedback, The City will maintain the existing pedestrian
crossing of Memorial Dr at 7 St N.W. A pedestrian crossing will not be installed at 8 St.
Bummer!
Did anyone fill out this survey? As a Sunnyside resident I appear to have missed mine...
Dumb, dumb, dumb. I was under the impression the plan was to always move the 7th street crossing to 8th. Unless the elevation change from road level up the bridge made this impractical.
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Man, I can't believe that the majority voted against moving the cross walk to 8th st. - my neighbours are stupider than I thought!
Quote:
“I am strongly in favour of aligning the crosswalk with the Peace Bridge, I believe leaving the crossing at 7th Street would result in jaywalking at 8th Street…”
Well, at least this guy get it...
edit: With more reading I wonder how poorly written the survey was. It seems a lot of respondents felt there were already too many crossings and another would just add to memorial traffic problems. The question wasn't about adding a new crossing but rather relocated the existing crossing...
Really, at the end of the day it's no big deal I guess - I'm just going to jaywalk anyway...
Did anyone fill out this survey? As a Sunnyside resident I appear to have missed mine...
Yeah, I filled out a survey, it was probably about a year and a half ago. I voted for moving the crossing to 8th and not restricting turns there.
Sucks that the north end of the bridge would have just been a block from the nearest place you could get a latte (Vendome), but we'll now need to walk three blocks to get there.
