06-24-2016, 07:44 PM
(06-24-2016, 04:22 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: It has, but there are no such pedestrian or cyclists on it. I take it all the time as an alternative to King St which is currently under construction to reach Columbia from Conestoga Mall (as do many other drivers) and I can count on the fingers of one hand the total number of pedestrians and cyclists I've seen there, ever.
It made it much nicer for imaginary pedestrians, to me that's wasted money.
This is the definition of anecdotal. You take this street "all the time" (let's be generous and say that means daily), but it's a kilometre between Conestoga and Lexington along Davenport- going 50 kilometres per hour, you're spending about a minute there each trip. Thankfully, planners don't take daily minute-long snap shots of how many people are using a street.
You've just heard from at least one person who takes Davenport by bike (I have, too, by bike and car). And adjacent to Davenport are parks, churches, schools and residential neighbourhoods with adults and children alike wanting to cross Davenport. Maybe you didn't notice them traveling down Davenport, but people are crossing it and why shouldn't the car traffic be tamed to allow them to? There's a bus route traveling along Davenport, useless if people don't feel safe crossing to the other side of the street at the beginning or end of their bus trip.
Just because you haven't noticed people on bike or foot doesn't mean there aren't. And, as for the "wasted money," how much do you really suppose was spent on this road diet that only serves people who are using the road at times other than the seven minutes a week that you do? These projects are not expensive, in the grand scheme of municipalities' budgets.