07-31-2020, 07:38 AM
(07-31-2020, 06:57 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(07-30-2020, 09:37 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Also I should add I’m skeptical of some of the “slowing traffic down” stuff. Westmount is an arterial road; it’s entirely reasonable for traffic to travel 60km/h on it, assuming traffic is light enough to support that (it’s not reasonable to expect to maintain that speed at busy times). The fact that it is lined with houses is just a massive urban planning fail. That being said, if the bollards make it so that 60km/h is the fastest traffic rather than having lots of people zipping through at 70km/h or higher, then that is a good thing.
Not only is the limit on Westmount (as is the case in many "arterial" roads) 50km/h, it is also a residential street, where traffic should be slowed.
Saying it is residential, while true, is also misleading. It is a 4-lane road that was built for the purpose of moving motor vehicle traffic (although I think that it, like almost all others in the Region, should be 2-lane with turn lanes). Calling it residential makes it sound like it is the same as Roslin Ave. or Empire St., which it is not.
Although thinking about it, if it were rezoned appropriately (mixed used including midrises), it would soon have so much going on that it would probably be more like Danforth Ave. in Toronto, and nobody would ever have the opportunity to get up to 60km/h.