01-17-2019, 02:41 PM
(01-17-2019, 02:15 PM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: Will there be online feedback possibilities when presentation is online? Couldn't make it.
Disappointed but not surprised that people are complaining about the widening of the trail so far. It was barely widened, not up to anything substantial, and they're saying everything has been destroyed. To me, this means that not much was there to begin with, and that they were asking the city to do their privacy or nature habitats for them, when, if they have a property, they could put it on their property. A bit like when someone decides they want to grow a bush barrier between backyards, but if they asked their neighbour to put it in on their property only.
I still say that any street which might be considered for 40km/h or less that the trail crosses, should by default have a speed table, trail-priority crossing. If they're worried about snowplows, they could angle the start of the speed table to more closely match the plow angle, while keeping the flat section wide enough that the trail doesn't need to deviate.
But sometimes solutions are simple. The IHT right now doesn't even follow the rules we give for roadways regarding visibility. There are rules around intersections, where you need clearance so that if you are stopped at an intersection, you can see approaching cross-traffic (and vice versa) for safety, but the IHT at gage and elsewhere, the Spur line all over, they have a lot of property-edge tall vegetation that blocks views of roadway traffic, sometimes even forcing you onto the roadway to see cross-traffic, and that is plain not safe.
The "complaining about widening the trail" largely comes from the requirement to have a journalistic requirement to have "both sides" represented, no matter how much of a minority, or (and not in this case I want to make clear) how ridiculous one side is. We see this in everything from vaccines, to climate change, and yes, to widening and lighting our trail (again, where the objectors are a minority, not ridiculous).
The ironic thing is the location where the quoted person points out things being destroyed, they were in fact destroyed as part of other projects (hydro enhancements and catalyst) and to remove invasive species, not related to trail work at all.