West District | ?m | ?s | Truman

[Surrealplaces]

Their first mistake was leading with that wild, one-off round-about interchange at Flanders Ave. It's a very suburban way of developing, getting distracted by the major, expensive car-oriented infrastructure that is "required", losing focus on the actual delivery of the cool neighbourhood that's the whole point. The design itself set the wrong tone and remains woefully car-oriented, in complete contrast to the neighbourhood vision and the existing context of something far more walkable and urban.

I can't stand the connection path from Marda Loop to Currie. It's not good for cyclists or pedestrians, and really it's not even good for drivers. IMO it's a pile of crap.

Outside of that I don't mind Currie. It's still evolving and will probably be an alright urban enclave in the suburbs once it's done, but yeah, kind of cut off from stuff. Even a nice interface into MRU would have made a difference.