10-11-2018, 11:32 AM
(10-11-2018, 08:58 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(10-11-2018, 08:39 AM)ijmorlan Wrote: Which is super-easy because westbound traffic only needs one lane at the point, since it consists only of traffic making the right from Bridgeport/Caroline* plus a bus every few minutes turning left.
It’s not even like they made a trade-off and decided to give all the space to motor vehicles; it’s that they just do not care.
* Officially Caroline but anybody driving the stretch probably thinks of it as Bridgeport because it functions as such.
This is entirely on point, and this is the most frustrating thing.
Even when they're forced to care (building a bike lane) often a half ass job is done of it.
Not always the case (Waterloo Park for example), but we are predisposed to remember the bad, and there is lots to remember.
My guess is they are different designers. Waterloo Park was most likely done by City designers, whereas I’m guessing Erb St. was done by a Regional transportation road designer. Anyway we’re not asking for everything to be superb; we just want flagrantly abusive urban design not to be perpetrated, and it’s legitimate to insist that it not happen anywhere.
I think enthusiasm for appropriate transportation design varies enormously among municipal staff. I recall the person who provided updates on the Waterloo Park project also regularly tweeted about related issues, and I felt like he was “one of us” (not literally, as I’m not aware that he posts here, but figuratively). By contrast it’s quite clear that many of our Regional designers wish they were working for Robert Moses.