Was at an event tonight where Eric Wenger gave a talk and I asked him (not for the first time but after quite a bit of time had passed since I last asked) again about pedestrian connectivity between West downtown and Farmers market. He seemed to have backed off the last thing he told me a bit and went with the more conservative, "there will be pedestrian features but we'll upgrade them over time as needed". Not saying this is a negative response but considering the last time we talked about this none of the things happening in West downtown were happening yet, and just how much more rapidly things will progress once what's being built is done (e.g. there will suddenly be hundreds of residents that won't want to only go east), I think he's underestimating how quickly they'll need to upgrade and thus why not do them up front.