General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

It looked pretty fresh when I rode down it on the holiday monday last week but it's been at least a year or more since I've driven out that way so I don't know when they did it but there are some little islands and narrowed lanes. I remember being at a council meeting years ago and they had a number of delegations basically demanding that Glasgow get calming ahead of other streets that had met the criteria planners had picked for calming streets and Glasgow was apparently a prime route for fire trucks and the FD was opposed to speed humps but the Glasgow residents had some slick business-like power point presentation and I guess it worked for them.

What is especially galling about Glasgow is that it is one of the original roads and for once it is straight. Of course it is a prime route for fire trucks, and for everybody else as well. It should have a 60km/h limit, and given the prevailing design standards in this city, should be four lanes (although if it were up to me I wouldn’t have nearly as many four-lane roads as we have). It definitely shouldn’t have the reduced 40km/h limit. If you want 40km/h and traffic calming don’t live on a major arterial.