11-19-2019, 02:39 PM
(11-18-2019, 03:44 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(11-18-2019, 02:45 PM)MidTowner Wrote: It's specifically 14,115 average between Breithaupt and Victoria. Some of the traffic you mention between Union and Victoria takes Guelph or Louisa or Wellington.
14,115 on average pass over the tracks on Lancaster. For Westmount, only a few segments of Westmount Road East right before it ends at Fischer-Hallman carry that few vehicles.
Edit to add that, were Lancaster closed, some of that traffic really would just disappear. You're right that most of it would move to other streets, but it might or might not be true that the result would be "insanity" there.
Ottawa St S is less than that between Mill St and King St E. Westmount Rd S (I did say Westmount Rd S, not Westmount Rd E) is less than that between Dick St and Norman St.
The traffic would just disappear? All those people would walk instead? Seriously?
There are Regional roads (or, anyway, stretches of them) that carry far less traffic than Lancaster, you're right, and good job identifying them. In what way are these ones supposed to be good comparisons with Lancaster, though? Are they similar in any way besides the fact that they don't carry very much traffic? We've never built an expensive overpass on Westmount at Dick for instance.
Anyway, a few others explained induced demand to you- yes, a portion of the traffic really would cease to exist if the road were closed. An actual study of traffic patterns would give a good guess as to how much of it, and where other traffic would be diverted to. That's what should be done before we invest a huge sum of money here. Simply closing the street should be an option, given the capacity at Margaret and Weber and elsewhere.