06-10-2020, 11:01 AM
(06-10-2020, 10:53 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(06-10-2020, 08:21 AM)clasher Wrote: I don't think West Ave. is a truck route, though there are hydro trucks that go down that stretch it still seems like another unnecessarily wide road. It would be a great place to set up photo-radar though.
When I say “space required”, I mean literally the smallest space which the truck can physically fit through. My suggested width is nowhere near enough for a truck route — full size trucks would have to line themselves up just right and squeeze through. To smaller vehicles, even cars, it would feel like a very narrow space, just not quite as extremely tight as for a large truck.
I don’t think the road can be made narrow enough that trucks literally don’t fit at all. Almost every location needs occasional visits from trucks for various deliveries.
I like the idea of having single-lane sections of some streets. I can’t speak to whether this is a good location for it, but there certainly are places in my neighbourhood where it would make a lot of sense to narrow a street to a single bidirectional lane for a path crossing.
FWIW, many two way roads in the Netherlands are only one lane wide (and I do mean like 3 meters total width). When there are oncoming vehicles, you must pull over into a siding in order to allow the other vehicle to proceed. This is done in some residential areas, in rural areas, it saves tons of money on on roads because we don't need extra width, and leads to slower speeds and safer more friendly residential streets. In addition, this was done in Waterloo park for the driveway for the tennis club.
Having a 1 lane choke point is much less aggressive, and is a totally reasonable traffic calming policy.