Comment 105704

By KevinLove (registered) | Posted October 28, 2014 at 14:50:10 in reply to Comment 105695

Interesting the number of people here who have written about the issue of rat-running "cut through" car drivers.

This is a serious problem where I live in Ward 2, next to the "Herkimer Racetrack."

The cut-through car drivers can see the traffic light at James Street turn green all the way back as far as Durand Park. They know that in order to "beat the light" the cut-through car drivers are going to have to drive at 70-100 km/hr on this residential street. AND THEY DO!

Terrorizing children going to the park or to school. And terrorizing the elderly. And everyone else.

The amount of police enforcement of these terrorist criminals is approximately zero. I've never seen any, and I live here.

The solution is prevention of cut-through car driving by using Permeable Filters as Neighbourhood Connectors to limit through traffic to walking, cycling and public transit. In The Netherlands, this is the method used to eliminate cut-through car drivers from virtually every residential street. But it is not necessary to go that far to see effective examples. Here are two from Toronto. See:

http://g.co/maps/wkvnh

and

http://g.co/maps/qpkwe

It is very useful to zoom out at these links on Google Maps and see how they have been used strategically to eliminate cut-through car drivers from the local neighbourhood.

Toronto did it. We can too!

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