Showing posts with label mess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mess. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Questionable Renovations and Flow

The University of Winnipeg renovated a theatre on the edge of their campus. The entry on Memorial was deemed insufficient and has been closed up. Instead, they offer a long ramp off a side entrance. 


If there is a lineup down this ramp, a person in a wheelchair could have difficulties (breaking and pushing on an incline doesn't sound easy to me). And this doesn't seem like it will be easy to leave in case of emergencies.
At least there's bike parking. And preventing entry from Memorial, where there is not a safe drop off spot (traffic flows quickly by this area), may have been a smart move. But I have yet to be convinced that this new entrance is sufficient.

I also want to show the nearby door for the main buildings of UofW.


No Entry. And I didn't take a photo of the middle of the block where there is a lovely chain-link fence. 
So don't think about going to the the main campus buildings from the theatre!

Monday, February 16, 2009

Not Getting There 1


The signs say, "No entry Except buses and Cyclists"

However, it is difficult to figure out where the bike path is. There is a large pile of snow straight ahead and walking tracks around the left and right. But there isn't really a bike path. If I want to go down Spence on a bicycle, I have to off road it around the piles of snow and onto the sidewalk, mixing with pedestrians and getting stuck in ruts.

I wrote this post back in the winter, when you could see the painted bike lane. While the snow has melted and you can see the paint now, I still think this is a valid critique.