Kelowna new downtown

[grammafreddy]

How is the city gonna clean up Lawrence and Leon that way? How many storeys are now, under the new vision, allowable on those two streets downtown?

[Joe Public]

The stated intent is to force the marginalized outside of the downtown core by increasing development and increasing the number of "good" residents.

As I've stated, I think that it's just a cover to have taxpayers subsidize the developers.

[Captain Awesome]

So there it is folks. Your tax dollars are being used by the city to make the downtown core more attractive for people other than yourselves, to live in. And who will benefit directly from this expenditure? Developers and downtown businesses of course.

You're not supposed to always directly benefit from your tax dollars. I live in Rutland, but it would be nice to have nice clean revamped Downtown core to go shopping or just bum around. I don't demand all my tax dollars to be spent in Rutland - that would be unworkable and kinda stupid.

You should stop getting bent out of shape over your tax dollars. You live in a city where many people's needs have to be addressed, and just because city doesn't dance around you and what you need, doesn't mean they waste money. It just means they're addressing someone else's needs sometimes - like people who live downtown. It's not all about you, you know.

[60-YEARS-in-Ktown]

Re New Berrnard.. I cant believe they squished the bike lanes in with the cars.
I thought with that sidewalk THAT WIDE, there would be a bike lane..like in MODERN cities..

Guess who will still ride on siewalk ?. But Now we can say.. What the other NINE feet are not enough for you?.. Go on a diet *bleep*..

[kgcayenne]

There is plenty of room on the sidewalks to share with bicycles, strollers, etc.

[cv23]

There is plenty of room on the sidewalks to share with bicycles, strollers, etc.

But riding bicycles on the sidewalks is illegal

[kgcayenne]

I know that, but I'm personally not going to be bent out of shape when there are ZERO bike lanes and only a wide sidewalk available.

I have hope that some people have the sense to slow down.

[zzontar]

I know that, but I'm personally not going to be bent out of shape when there are ZERO bike lanes and only a wide sidewalk available.

I have hope that some people have the sense to slow down.

It's good that you wouldn't get bent out of shape about it, but the issue would be about whether the cops are going to get bent out of shape about it.

[grammafreddy]

I know that, but I'm personally not going to be bent out of shape when there are ZERO bike lanes and only a wide sidewalk available.

I have hope that some people have the sense to slow down.

http://www.castanet.net/news/Old-as-dir ... t-watching

Our Jo would have fun with that one

[60-YEARS-in-Ktown]

Yeah but better alive than. Not, I have been run over already..
Being right and legal in a coffin has no future..

[Joe Public]

Captain Awesome...

Well, aren't you an *bleep*.

Could you please be so kind as to explain how $14,000 glowing street light poles are meeting someone else's needs and why I shouldn't be complaining about them? And BTW, it not all about me at all as I don't pay any Kelowna taxes. Someone has to speak up and defend the rights of uninformed people such as yourself.

[cv23]

I have hope that some people have the sense to slow down.

Sorry but have you seen the caliber of the majority of people who presently ride their bikes on the sidewalks downtown?
Common sense is as lacking with them as are their jobs or their ambition to get one and leave the drugs and crime most are involved in.

[cv23]

It's good that you wouldn't get bent out of shape about it, but the issue would be about whether the cops are going to get bent out of shape about it.

Let's hope the cops do their job and start handing out tickets. If the "new downtown" is cycle unfriendly then don't cycle there and register a complaint with City Hall.
Just because a person may feel a situation is unsafe does not give them the right to break the law.
"I'm sorry Your Honor but I felt driving my car on the street was unsafe so I chose the sidewalk where there was far less cars to possibly collide with"

[Neroicco]

Re: bike lanes - I did ask that question at one of the open houses way back when and the young planner rattled on about how making bikes share the traffic lanes in a downtown street helps slow everyone down...

Havn't heard this before but I suppose it will be true as you wait for the paramedics to clear the mangled bikes off the street!

Perhaps a request for service to the City to ask for clairfication about the reasoning on this is in order?

[normaM]

just did a quick drive down.. underwhelmed with the leaning poles, still rather a mess and they are still trying to get things done.