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Yup, Bascule is still upright

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It's been down the last few days, so I guess it just went upright again recently. I rode across it a few time over the weekend.
 
Yup, Bascule is still upright

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How long has it been stuck for?
I noticed it was up in upright on Tuesday. The worst part of this is that there was no signage mentioning than it wasn't accessible. Lots of drivers were going past Polson St then turning back. Not sure why they didn't put any signs at Polson and Cherry.
 
I wonder how many times it needs to go up and down per week?

Google Maps is alternately showing road closed until May 6th or May 8th.
 
The should call that bridge the Bascule Wood, as it's always up... >.<
 
It was still up today (Thurs). I’d only bothered to look because I’d flipped on a live Johnny Strides video the other day, and some cyclist had asked him if the bridge was open. He’d mistakenly thought he meant the yellow one and told him yes. So no apparently no signage.
 
It was still up today (Thurs). I’d only bothered to look because I’d flipped on a live Johnny Strides video the other day, and some cyclist had asked him if the bridge was open. He’d mistakenly thought he meant the yellow one and told him yes. So no apparently no signage.
There was a sign at Commissioners saying ROAD CLOSED but there are so many out of date signs in the City that it was ignored by many.
 
An interesting article from Smart Density about changes they would like to see to the current plan.

 
An interesting article from Smart Density about changes they would like to see to the current plan.

I have flagged this to a board member on WT that I know through a friend.

I really also want to see more walkability and think we can do better on this front. Downsview shows us what’s possible.


Great article!
 
The response from officialdom will be that that type of development is not feasible here due the regulatory environment. So the real problem are the sacred cows like the size of emergency vehicles, prohibition on point access blocks/single stair development etc. If the answer is that it is not possible here, we need to understand why we are making livable cities illegal.
 
The response from officialdom will be that that type of development is not feasible here due the regulatory environment. So the real problem are the sacred cows like the size of emergency vehicles, prohibition on point access blocks/single stair development etc. If the answer is that it is not possible here, we need to understand why we are making livable cities illegal.

Except for the problem of the above being entirely untrue, it's a fine thought.

Don't get me wrong I agree we have over sized loading in many buildings and yes, the fire dept can be an irritant at times.

But that has nothing to w/40M ROWs or even 20M rows in Villiers.

That's a function of streetwall height and density.

Villiers as currently proposed is 9,000 units on 20 hectares

Merwede is 4,250 units on 24 hectares.

So Villiers is much denser and much taller with 2.11x the number of units in just over 80% of the land area.

Villiers - 450 units per hectare

Merwede - 177 units per hectare.

When you drastically reduce height, you drastically reduce shadows and wind, this reduces the need for setbacks and large separation distances.

It also slashes the projected traffic too.
 
Except for the problem of the above being entirely untrue, it's a fine thought.

Don't get me wrong I agree we have over sized loading in many buildings and yes, the fire dept can be an irritant at times.

But that has nothing to w/40M ROWs or even 20M rows in Villiers.

That's a function of streetwall height and density.

Villiers as currently proposed is 9,000 units on 20 hectares

Merwede is 4,250 units on 24 hectares.

So Villiers is much denser and much taller with 2.11x the number of units in just over 80% of the land area.

Villiers - 450 units per hectare

Merwede - 177 units per hectare.

When you drastically reduce height, you drastically reduce shadows and wind, this reduces the need for setbacks and large separation distances.

It also slashes the projected traffic too.
I was referring to the form they were proposing. It basically can't be done, even if we wanted to. Very little in the way of car light development is proceeding in North America. Cul De Sac Tempe is an example, and that still required concessions for emergency vehicle access.
 

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