General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

Interesting, because that is my proposed main route. If everybody starts doing that the rest of Victoria will have less traffic.

I don’t really see why we’d want the traffic off that section of Victoria (lackner/bingemans to Shirley). 

We’d need another stoplight at bingemans/Shirley which would be awkward with a stoplight/rail/stoplight in close succession.  And it’s taking traffic from an already built 5-lane road with minimal businesses along it to move traffic to a much smaller road that already has roughly the same number of businesses.  It doesn’t feel like this section of Victoria needs to be particularly pedestrian friendly because it’s mostly car dealerships, rail underpass/tracks, and some water management.

I think you just end up with two high-traffic routes instead of one.  And it’ll be really silly to have three car friendly routes if we end up building the highway too.

My idea is to re-work the intersections so the natural (no turns) route into town is along what is now Shirley Dr. and Bingemans Centre Dr., and re-design Victoria St. (west of the intersection with Shirley Dr.) to be an urban street. Taking a closer look, I see that east of Lackner the whole area is industrial, so it could make sense for that part to be primarily industrial. West of Lackner though Victoria is one block from residential streets so redesigning it would make a lot of sense.

And I would not build the superhighway. So there would be only one main route into town starting from Highway 7, and it would stay away from residential areas all the way until it reached the expressway.