Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether.

As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.

    • @Son_of_dad
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      -56 months ago

      Ban cars in the city!.. Where’s my Amazon package? And my Uber eats order? And my hello meal box?..

        • @Son_of_dad
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          -66 months ago

          How do you pick up your disabled kid from school and take em to the doctor 50km away on a bicycle? In the dream world that also has perfect and free transit?

          • @[email protected]
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            46 months ago

            You cannot ban cars without having a solid public transit network, obviously. Besides, in nearly all cases you’d take a child to a closer doctor anyways because visiting a doctor shouldn’t require car ownership, ever.

            • @Son_of_dad
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              -16 months ago

              People don’t change family doctors when they move though, so that banks on you living in the same place forever

        • @Son_of_dad
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          -76 months ago

          Lol here’s my moving guys carrying all my furniture on bicycles.

          Oh shoot my kids are done school, and I gotta take them to the dentist right after. Let me strap them and a baby seat to my back while I climb on this bicycle.

          Oh here comes the bicycle delivering my new 60" tv!

          Sucks I’m disabled and have no way to ride a bicycle, guess I’ll fucking die

          • @[email protected]
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            36 months ago

            That’s literally how most able bodied folks live in cities. Busses work fine for folks in wheelchairs.

            Maybe you should visit a city and see how deliveries work there. This isn’t the 1990s.