Commentary: Highway transport gets neighbourhood scale wrong
Thursday, May 1st 2008
The street grid of Hintonburg and West Wellington was formed during an era when when railways ran the freight business and trackside warehouses broke down boxcar-loads into manageable sizes for horse-drawn carts, and later small vans, to safely deliver to neighbourhood businesses.
But these days the same 18-wheelers that have replaced so much rail traffic are expected to make the trip from massive distribution centres in southern (more…)
