General Road and Highway Discussion

[MidTowner]

As long as Glasgow St. counts as an arterial, with a limit of 50 or 60km/h, I’m OK with this in general principal. Also, there needs to be a plan to progressively rebuild neighbourhood residential streets with small intersections and other measures to make the slower speeds feel right. If you take an urban speedway like Westforest Trail and just put a 40km/h limit sign on it, it will feel to drivers like they could go faster by getting out and walking, and as a result many won’t slow down. The slowdown has to feel natural.

Glasgow must be designated a local collector, right? It seems residential to me. A lot of drivers will have their own opinions about which streets should be designated major versus minor. I've met drivers who have told me that my street is a "main/major/arterial" street because they happen to use it to rat run through my neighbourhood, but to me it seems residential- since I live there, and every other building on the block is a residence.

To your other point, I agree completely. I think speed limits should be lowered because speeds should be lower- and to accomplish the latter, redesigns are necessary. But even minor changes require resources, so might not be able to be done overnight. We really could lower speed limits now, without squandering time and money on pilot programs.