Macleod isn't a lot cause, it's just a different situation from 16th. I don't forsee Macleod getting converted to a legit urban Boulevard any time soon because a) it's so beyond messed up and b) it will always be a very significant corridor for cars (except for maybe the area around and north of chinook), unlike 16th which absolutely has that potential. That doesn't mean it can't be fixed. Get rid of all the stupid driveway access points and fix the ridiculous intersections so the street is less dangerous and traffic flows better. Then use the streets that run parallel to Macleod to create pedestrian friendly main streets that building can front onto and then those same buildings can face away from Macleod. North-South pedestrian and bike flow can be focused on those parallel main streets and away from the Macleod car sewer, and then all you need to worry about is east west crossing which can be fixed by designing intersections that don't suck (and the occasional overpass). Eventually macleod can get so surrounded by an urban canyon that in a decade or two we can start talking about building a lid on top of or burying portions of it.
