General Road and Highway Discussion

[BuildingScout]

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.

Sorry dude, but pretty much all we do here is trade anecdotal information, with the occasional reference to a cool study. This is not an academic forum.

And by the way you haven't provided any data, so my anecdotal data is one over your posting which contains none.

Anyone with common sense can tell why there are no pedestrians there: nothing fronts on that street. It's fully fenced by house backyards and goes from the parking lot at Conestoga Mall to nowhere for pedestrian purposes. This would be in contrast to a road diet on King (say as it happened in Kitchener) where there are plenty of destinations to attract pedestrians to the slower, safer street.

The fact that it wasn't that much money ($3 million) is a lame excuse, by the way.