ACT PLAN: Canberra's to the lake
combining Canberra's city centre to the lake and making city hill a well used central
park and commerce area. This plan will include prime land realises for
businesses along the lake at West Basin and also around London circuit. This
plan will connect the west basin to the city buy bridging over parks way as can
be seen in the pictures which I think is a great idea.
This development is
hoped to make the lake and city more lively bringing alfresco dining and restaurants
to the lake. This development also includes turning the civic swimming centre
into a new ports stadium with around 30,000 seats and a roof allowing the venue
to have more of a multipurpose due to it also being able to be used for
concerts and other things. Also in Canberra the roof will be a handy asset to
getting people to attend events especially in winter. This development will
also included a revamped constitution avenue making it a real hub fro Canberra
with a lot more shops, business, government buildings cafes and restaurants
along it.
The problems I personally have with this plan is a loss of
parking most central car parks are being replaced with buildings and although
the businesses will be required to supply parking the parking will be at a much
lower level then is currently supplied which with extra buildings and a stadium
will not work. A solution to this could be public transport but buses just aren't suffice you need a proper heavy metro rail to get people to use public
transport which I have outlined in this article - http://www.alexaplanningblog.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/metro-rail-network-for-canberra.html
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Another problem I have with this plan is safety if you are going to start
using city hill as a major park and place of commerce you need proper underpasses
below the road to avoid accidents.
What do you think? Let me know comment!
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