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They want to turn green spaces into more parking 🤦

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/turning-green-space-into-parking-is-not-the-answer-ottawa-councillor-criticizes-dnds-plan-to-create-new-parking-at-carling-campus/

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favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 108d (6 replies)
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noredcandy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 108d

Why build up or down when you can build out!

slaacaa@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 108d (2 replies)

As a European I’m always baffled by this. In my home city you can find underground garages everywhere downtown: under office buildings, malls, even some parks

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 108d

But those cost money. Much easier to just bulldoze some greenery.

maya@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 108d

DND carling campus is quite far from downtown, like around 17km, so I guess they don't give a fuck about density?

maya@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 108d (1 reply)

They literally already have a parking garage lol sDaR1IHBlGkQr1w.png

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 108d
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Grabthar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 108d

The solution, as always, is not parking, biking or transit. It's to tell the public servants to work from home.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 108d (1 reply)

Do I see it correctly that Ottawa is building a light rail line, which is supposed to end about 1km to the south of this and kind of in the middle of nowhere?

maya@piefed.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 108d

Yes, that is correct.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 108d

Its the military, their expertise is turning habitable places into waste zones

ddplf@szmer.info · 1 pts · 108d

I think I figured out a pretty sweet alternative - just use the spots you already have