02-27-2018, 10:57 AM
(02-27-2018, 09:46 AM)clasher Wrote: Traffic calming on Glasgow Street is a joke, the speed limit shouldn't be 40km/h between Westmount and Fischer-Hallman, a lot of the front yards on that street are big enough to build another house on and still have a reasonable setback from the road. The bike lanes are extremely frustrating in design, and people use the raised sections to put their garbage out. It's just ridiculous that a main thoroughfare gets this treatment. I was at a council meeting years ago and the residents of that street had sent a delegation with a slick powerpoint that someone with a lot of marketing experience had made and the presenter spoke eloquently and at length about how unsafe it was for the kids to play and yaddy-yaddy... I guess it worked and they got the first traffic calming stuff but it was different than the present configuration.
Personally I wouldn't mind if they brought back photo-radar. It's easy enough to avoid speeding if one cares to. (and I don't mean 10 over)
The limit should be 60km/h there anyway (at least west of Westmount), owing to its place in the road network. Kids playing out front of those houses? Not likely! And not because it is a major transportation corridor.
And remember, I’m Mr. Why Do We Spend So Much on Cars Anyway?