03-30-2024, 06:14 AM
Yeah, I mean, it's not nothing...certainly they are trying to follow councils instructions to actually build in features to the roads like bike lanes and such but they absolutely desperate to do it without taking away one inch of space from motorists.
Like...Victoria St. in this area is ridiculous. It is two lanes east of Lawrence, and Lawrence is a tiny street. There is absolutely no reason for a four lane road here. The traffic numbers do not justify it. Highland is already four lanes to carry volumes (which also don't really exist there mind you). Even west of Westmount the volumes don't justify four lanes, but east, there is absolutely no reason because the road is already two lanes and will never be widened.
And yet, they insist on keeping four lanes. On a stretch of road with tons of housing, with a daycare across from that housing, where children have already been run over, one of the deadliest sections of road in the region. A section of road where people live, but do so without any trees, because trees cannot survive in that environment...well, remove them and add a bike lane to the parched environment...regional engineers feel that is progressive.
The fact that they are keeping four lanes here, of all places...reveals all you need to know about regional policy.
And that will be my comment.
And I will be commenting on this one...because this one is personal to me. That was the daycare where my little one went, I rode that road every day for almost a year. I remember when the proposal came up to improve it, I told them the proposal was mediocre...but I never expected it to come up again. The fact that it has shows that council isn't pleased with the mediocrity...but regional staff aren't budging on it.
Like...Victoria St. in this area is ridiculous. It is two lanes east of Lawrence, and Lawrence is a tiny street. There is absolutely no reason for a four lane road here. The traffic numbers do not justify it. Highland is already four lanes to carry volumes (which also don't really exist there mind you). Even west of Westmount the volumes don't justify four lanes, but east, there is absolutely no reason because the road is already two lanes and will never be widened.
And yet, they insist on keeping four lanes. On a stretch of road with tons of housing, with a daycare across from that housing, where children have already been run over, one of the deadliest sections of road in the region. A section of road where people live, but do so without any trees, because trees cannot survive in that environment...well, remove them and add a bike lane to the parched environment...regional engineers feel that is progressive.
The fact that they are keeping four lanes here, of all places...reveals all you need to know about regional policy.
And that will be my comment.
And I will be commenting on this one...because this one is personal to me. That was the daycare where my little one went, I rode that road every day for almost a year. I remember when the proposal came up to improve it, I told them the proposal was mediocre...but I never expected it to come up again. The fact that it has shows that council isn't pleased with the mediocrity...but regional staff aren't budging on it.