General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

There's a petition on change.org to reconfigure Keats Way for pedestrians and cyclists. Not sure the exact concept is practical but Keats Way is one of the most overbuild roads in the region, and I would love to see it used better.

https://www.change.org/p/waterloo-city-c...-keats-way

Thanks for linking. Absolutely the design is an improvement. I will say there is some ironic comments though. The author is clearly afraid of being labeled anti car.

He isn't quite right though. The middle space is used for a turn lane. Moving to the profile he proposes would remove that. Now I fully support that idea. And I believe traffic on Keats way doesn't need turn lanes. But I know even in this forum that would not be accepted. 

The author also seems to dislike crossing islands and feels narrowing the road would remove the need for them. I suspect many people in our region are poisoned against crossing islands by the utter garbage that gets built here. In fact a narrow two lane road still needs a crossing island.

While it's fun to read between the lines, I support the proposal, but given the portion of Keats with a center median I suspect some of it would have to wait for a complete rebuild. It could maybe be done from westmount to Fisher Hallman to start.

But I don't know when Keats way is scheduled for work and it's unlikely to happen before then.