Comment 110413

By higgicd (registered) | Posted March 23, 2015 at 09:47:22

I emphatically agree - I have long thought this design to be treacherous in the winter. I wondered why the grade to make driveway entry as pleasant as possible for automobiles to overcome a few inches of vertical change had to come at such a cost to the horizontal inconvenience for pedestrians, particularly the elderly around my neighbourhood.

Like the author here has done, getting right to the heart of the matter by identifying relevant public employees to be held accountable is the next step to getting many of the changes proposed by authors on this site to go from good-intentioned nuisance to implementation. Like 2-way street conversions mentioned last week - who are these 'city staff' for whom it takes so much effort to not default to auto-centric design? Perhaps it is time for some new staff.

Mayor Tory in Toronto has been pretty progressive in trying to change culture in that city, see recent TTC firings for example (maybe they will all continue to end up here running our vision-less transit system!).

Comment edited by higgicd on 2015-03-23 09:49:10

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