General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

That still includes a roundabout at Westmount, yes?

Ahh...that was one of the last straws for me at the regional ATAC....

It was just so striking to me...

The staff/contractor engineer came in and talked about how council had directly instructed them to prioritise pedestrian and transit users OVER drivers. They remarked this was a weird thing they've never been asked before.

They proceeded to explain how they were going to build a roundabout even though it was worse for transit riders and pedestrians because it was needed to meet their traffic modelling requirements.

Not a hint of irony, or suggestion that they even realised what they were doing was a direct contradiction. I pushed them on that, and they just did not get it. "We must meet the traffic modelling requirements"...it was EXACTLY like the "Conversation with an Engineer" by Charles Marohn.

So, I wouldn't be surprised to see a roundabout going in all these years later, but I was not invited back to ATAC...seems they were more interested in having people who would rubber stamp staff proposals...even ones that were directly selfcontradictory.