Comment 53570

By realfreeenterpriser (registered) | Posted December 22, 2010 at 14:44:28

Wow! Council grew a pair and called the Tiger-Cats bluff. Now I guess they'll be moving to....oh yah, they never did say where, did they?

Nevertheless, maybe it's time to get innovative here. West Harbour is the very best site we could hope both for the city as a whole and for our downtown but, while I don't believe access is the problem that some would have us believe, maybe it's time to bend just a little.

The concept of improved access to WH from both east and west doesn't have to mean a throughway and arguing that the current access to WH is perfectly satisfactory (I believe it is) won't win over a single person.

Burlington Street is already a major arterial roadway as far west as Wellington Street. Utilizing the CN right-of-way or directly adjacent land to get QEW/Red Hill/mountain traffic closer to the West harbour and TO the downtown rather than THROUGH it makes some sense. On the western end this could easily be achieved by making Queen one-way in before games and one-way out after games at least from Barton to York Boulevard.

Traffic is the only "tangible" objection the Tiger-Cats have voiced and, like or not, a lot of people have embraced it.

Disarm them!

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