Comment 104292

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted September 04, 2014 at 16:22:51 in reply to Comment 104290

Burlington Street can move a tremendous amount of traffic.

Notice that they kept 3 lanes of Cannon west of Victoria, but only needed 2 east of Victoria? Burlington St is why. East of Wellington, Burlington is basically an extension of the QEW. West of Wellington, it's a normal street.

The fast east/west corridor across the city has gotten a little more complicated thanks to the city's developments, but it's still there.

Burlington -> Wellington -> Cannon -> Queen -> King

Notice that all of those streets are maintaining at least 2 lanes of fast 1-way traffic. I've driven that frequently and the only slowdown that ever happens is the left turn at Queen. Even if the LRT is built, you can bet we'll still see 2 lanes of fast 1-way traffic on King, which quickly widens at Locke. It'll be fine.

The reverse route, Main -> Victoria -> Burlington is even faster. Victoria will become a bit constrained as the city is converting the Northmost end of Victoria two-way to help encourage industrial development there Victoria (developers have specifically requested this), but I'm betting on a TWINO conversion because their planners obviously keep traffic flow in-mind... but even right now Victoria flows well with only 2 lanes past the Hospital.

We also have Charlton East at the South end of the lower city providing another high-speed corridor.

These routes will stay fast. The city's own numbers show they will stay fast even with LRT and bike lanes and the like - they might get some normal congestion at rush hour just like any other normal mid-sized city (ie: not Toronto/NYC/Boston congestion, just normal city congestion) but no gridlock.

Comment edited by Pxtl on 2014-09-04 16:24:03

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