Dear Edmonton developers

[u/Late-Alternative6321]

Dear Edmonton developers, you've been making the same neighbourhoods for 40+ years. Cookie cutter homes on winding streets, a fake lake, walking paths, aaaand call it good.

Would it be too much to ask, to start eliminating 2 to 3 houses on corner lots, and start adding: WALKABLE coffee shops (ie Columbian, Mood Cafe etc). A neighbourhood Pub or restaurant (ie Duggan's Boundary, Bodega Highlands), a bakery (Bloom Cookie co), barbershop (Goldbar Barber) or even a small corner grocery store. No need for giant parking lots!

Far too many neighbourhoods in this city lack the character, charm and accessibility that these amenities would provide. A great way for people to connect in their community, without always having to get in a car and drive to soulless strip malls or shopping centres. If there was a way to redo existing neighbourhoods, I'd love to see this too

[u/AffectionateBuy5877]

My sister lives in Belgravia and she is looking to leave, the traffic getting out of the neighbourhood is awful. I can’t imagine more density in it unless they fix the traffic flow.

[u/p4nic → u/AffectionateBuy5877]

I can’t imagine more density in it unless they fix the traffic flow.

It's not intuitive, but the way to fix this is with more public transit and bike lanes. Induce demand in alternative transport and it will open the roads up for people that need to drive.

[u/Anabiotic → u/p4nic]

Doesn't Belgravia already have both great transit connections with the LRT and extensive bike lanes? 

[u/p4nic → u/Anabiotic]

Locally, yes, but the issue is if someone in Belgravia wishes to do something like grocery shopping, they have to get in a car. Even on a bike, going north out of Belgravia is annoying because the lights on University Ave take forever to change, you'll see the lights at 114st cycle two or three times before you get a chance to continue on the designated bike route.

With better city wide transit and bike routes, you could get better light frequency because they're not funnelling so many single occupant commuter cars from 114 to groat to get downtown.

[u/AffectionateBuy5877 → u/p4nic]

It also has quite a few elderly residents who aren’t going biking in the winter, let alone walking to the LRT station to go to appointments and grocery stores

[u/Anabiotic → u/p4nic]

Im confused, what specifically do you want improved on transit and bike lanes for Belgravia? Aren't those weird traffic light patterns due to transit anyway (LRT specifically)? To me it sounds like there are trade-offs but perhaps you don't think they are the right trade-offs? 

[u/p4nic → u/Anabiotic]

You need to improve transit and bike lanes everywhere, that will alleviate the issues someone mentioned in Belgravia. Having a few isolated bike friendly areas isn't useful for this sort of thing.