Comments by "Gabe" (@gabetalks9275) on "CBC News" channel.

It will never cease to amaze me how the US and Canada became so convinced that bulldozing our towns and cities was progress. If "urban renewal" requires mass urban destruction, then the goal was never urban renewal in the first place.
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@marcusalexanderhunke3291 Infill construction is filling in vacant or underused land. This highway didn't do that. It only destroyed a once beautiful and humane neighborhood.
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@daltongalloway That was because of the population boom at the time. Not because of the roads. Space is a limited resource, so building with borderline rural density everywhere is only wasting that space. This is why we have a housing crisis. It's because we've legislated the means to provide enough supply out of existence.
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@CasualCommuter_ That's not what infill development is. Infill development is redeveloping underused or vacant land. For example, buying out the abandoned factory and replacing it with housing.
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@CasualCommuter_ There's nothing wrong with the condo developments either. The problem is the lack of the missing middle.
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They'll have to get through Sapporo, another previous host. I think Japan's gonna really want to rebound after being totally screwed over by COVID.
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@marcusalexanderhunke3291 (1) The highway didn't just destroy aesthetics. It destroyed a ounce walkable area. (2) Wide high speed roads are dangerous to pedestrians, making it dangerous to be outside of a car. Highways do not belong in cities. This is how you create hostile environments that cause accidents. Highways are supposed to circle around the city like in most other countries around the world so they don't interfere with pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. (3) Aesthetics aren't just for the privileged. Beautifying places is an essential component to making them beautiful. There's a reason why greenery is important for public health. (4) This highway was built decades before Amazon even existed, so you can't blame Prime for it. Also, freight rail and cargo bikes exist. You don't need to truck everything around. (5) Highway expansion was championed in the name of personal freedom for wealthy white suburbanites in segregated white only suburbs. Where do you think all the wealthy white people went during white flight? This is why cities were redlining. To systemic deny funding to low-income neighborhoods of color and give it to the wealthy white suburbanites instead. Ironic how you preach about protecting the privileged and stopping gentrification while completely failing to recognize that these highways were deliberately designed to bulldoze low income neighborhoods of culture and separate them from the rest of the city while the banks blocked the sales of suburban homes to people of color and stripping their freedom of movement by destroying our public transit networks, forcing them to only be able to get around via a personal car that poor people cannot afford. Locking your freedom of movement behind an auto industry paywall that mostly only wealthy white suburbanites can afford sounds an awful lot like gentrification to me.
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