Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether.
As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.
Its a shame when projects like these are cancelled. It really shows how “car centric” North America can be in that a simple pedestrian bridge is harder to build and costs more then one designed for cars.
In a time when we should really be shifting to a more “pedestrian focused” design and “livable cities” in general, project like these are in the correct direction.
Nobody profits (maybe shoemakers) when you walk across a bridge. Oil companies, car companies, tire companies, insurance companies, mechanics, they all profit a little if you drive across the bridge.
Your right, its sad because its true.
But when people walk across a pedestrian bridge society profits. Healthier population both physically and mentally. Greater happiness and less stress. Less pollution, pretty much all these benefits put less “burden” on peoples pockets financially, either both directly and indirectly through taxs.
Unfortunately probably all hard to quantify though.
Saving isn’t the same as profit. Saving is much more beneficial, but our society is focused on profit.
Welp, just ban cars from the other bridge and we’ll all benefit
Ban cars in the city!.. Where’s my Amazon package? And my Uber eats order? And my hello meal box?..
Ban personal vehicles from cities and you can still order as many Amazon packages as you wish
How do you pick up your disabled kid from school and take em to the doctor 50km away on a bicycle? In the dream world that also has perfect and free transit?
You cannot ban cars without having a solid public transit network, obviously. Besides, in nearly all cases you’d take a child to a closer doctor anyways because visiting a doctor shouldn’t require car ownership, ever.
People don’t change family doctors when they move though, so that banks on you living in the same place forever
Its a city. All delivered by cargo bicycle
Lol here’s my moving guys carrying all my furniture on bicycles.
Oh shoot my kids are done school, and I gotta take them to the dentist right after. Let me strap them and a baby seat to my back while I climb on this bicycle.
Oh here comes the bicycle delivering my new 60" tv!
Sucks I’m disabled and have no way to ride a bicycle, guess I’ll fucking die
That’s literally how most able bodied folks live in cities. Busses work fine for folks in wheelchairs.
Maybe you should visit a city and see how deliveries work there. This isn’t the 1990s.
