The_Cat said:
I think the trouble with planning any kind of LRT is the lag between development and transit. When the LRT was extended to 23 Avenue, there wasn’t significant development south of AHD. I think it’s sometimes difficult to think 5-10 years ahead, but it’s safe to assume residential expansion will be near major nodes of employment, recreation and shopping.
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Isn't part of the idea of city planning that you don't just plop down transit and "hope" that's where development happens, but instead you create zoning and incentives to cluster development around mass transit. Lots of other cities have it figured out.

We're still stuck in the era of shoe-horning transit into existing car-dependent areas and trying to tie everything together. Vs building transit first and tying the major employment/education/health/retail hubs to the transit.
 
MacLac said:
Pretty sure that the NEW Rec Center was approved AFTER the West Line was set.....so it would have been foolhardy to presume that a magical rec center would appear out of nowhere - yet somehow plan for it? They can do an expansion one day....we've got bigger fish to fry for LRT expansion than this...let's move on
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in 2004 they released this master-plan identifying the approximate west end rec facility (pg 12-15): https://www.edmonton.ca/public-file...DF/RecFacilityMasterPlanAugust2004FullDoc.pdf

2010 the Valley Line was approved.

2014 the final lewis farms rec centre planning was finished.

So idk....seems like there was a window to coordinate some of it.
 
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thommyjo said:
Isn't part of the idea of city planning that you don't just plop down transit and "hope" that's where development happens, but instead you create zoning and incentives to cluster development around mass transit. Lots of other cities have it figured out.

We're still stuck in the era of shoe-horning transit into existing car-dependent areas and trying to tie everything together. Vs building transit first and tying the major employment/education/health/retail hubs to the transit.
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The City planned Heritage Valley Towne Centre with LRT in mind. There are thousands of apartment units already constructed, and easily another thousand under construction right now within walking distance. You can't blame the City that the Province killed the south hospital. However now that the project is dead Heritage Valley will have a massive doughnut of nothing that a future LRT line will have to go past to get to Town Centre and beyond to Desrochers.
 
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