08-05-2017, 10:12 AM
(08-03-2017, 11:24 AM)MidTowner Wrote: For instance, since you brought up Weber, I can tell you that last year most of Weber Street West carried a lot fewer than 20,000 vehicles on average per day. That doesn’t justify its configuration, but we paid a tonne the other year to have it widened, and tore down houses to have it widened. But, if the average rate payer were to see the number 20,000, maybe that just seems like a big number.
Depends on how one defines "most". Downtown Kitchener sees about 25,000 cars/day on Weber St, in Waterloo it's in the 30-40,000 range, as of 2015.
http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/gettin...ations.pdf
And those numbers will have increased with the addition of the LRT tracks tp (and resulting narrowing of) King St.
As little as I drive these days, I recognize that we need somewhere for cars to drive, too.