On 08-15-92 13:54 M00209@MBVM.Mitre.Org said to All
M0> That has been the universal experience in Toronto, from the opening of
M0> the original Yonge Street Subway through every extension since. When
M0> the Subway started running, pedestrian traffic, local business and land
M0> values have always increased. The development around Eglinton when the
M0> original line opened was a phenomenon that wasn't anticipated by the
M0> planners, but has since been repeated with every new addition to the
M0> system.
Something similar happened in Durban, or the reverse. The city council wanted to build a big road through the main station, and the railways wanted a through running station instead of a dead end one. So they closed the main station and moved it a couple of miles out of the centre of town, to an area where, under the apartheid laws, a lot of poor people who weren't white had been expropriated for a pittance and now the government was making a killing selling the land to people for offices and factories.
People got the original station building preserved, which defeated the plan for the road, which now does a detour round it. But because the station is closed, more people come to town by car, so the road doesn't solve the traffic problem either.
All in all the worst of all worlds.
... I'm NOT fat - I'm circumferentially challenged!
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