Comment 69865

By Brandon (registered) | Posted September 19, 2011 at 16:47:42

update: One fatal flaw in the RTH/LRT lobbyist thinking is that they assume intensification/development growth is only possible with LRT. One needs to visit Sao Paulo or Curitiba, Brazil to understand how intensification really happens and how transportation needs are met with what types of systems, at what stages in a city's growth.

For someone who is as sensitive to being misquoted on trivial items as you are, I'm sure you'll be able to provide a citation where the RTH group (staff, not anonymous responders) has suggested that the only path to intensification is through LRT. If not, I'm sure you'll apologize for such a slanderous statement.

A "lobby", by it's very nature, focuses on pushing one item, hence their focus on LRT to the exclusion of all other means of intensification. I know Ryan has always been a big proponent of two way streets, mixed use zoning and a variety of other intensification issues that I have forgotten because I'm not nearly as passionate about it as he is.

That being said, a well designed LRT system tends to provide intensification along the route, would you not agree? And since someone else offered to pay for it, you'd have to be pretty foolish to turn down the opportunity to implement something as potentially transformative as that. But instead we apparently want to focus all of our energy on all day GO service!

I am disappointment in you're grammar.

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