General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

Happy to see both the MUT and the roundabout! A little bit surprised, though, that there are no roundabouts planned at Strasburg or Fischer-Hallman.

This project doesn't touch Strasbourg nor Fischer-Hallman intersections.

The MUTs are good, but I don't have a great deal of confidence in them being executed well. The team presented this to ATAC and started by saying that they were shocked when council directed them to prioritize peds, bikes, and transit OVER cars, they said they'd never heard that before.  They spent the remainder of the meeting explaining how a roundabout with little to no provision for safe cycling or pedestrian activity is the only way they can achieve good level of service for car throughput at Westmount/Ottawa.

When I pointed out there were connections to be made to the west on Ottawa, they were surprised that such connections were there, despite being the same project team who is working on that section, where I already gave them feedback on making that connection.

I then pointed out that Kitchener is building a dutch roundabout, and the project team basically didn't care.

Frankly, my confidence in these particular project managers to build anything for cycling or walking is zero.