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By mdrejhon (registered) - website | Posted August 11, 2015 at 12:22:52 in reply to Comment 113292
Educational caveat automatically being added for general reader "decide for yourself" purposes.
https://raisethehammer.org/article/2664/...
There's overlap. For further reading why 2-way streets can be bad and 1-way streets can be good, see this other comment.
On that note:
The Right Tool for the Right Job definitely. Not all streets in all of Canada needs to be people-friendly (We don't need driveways and houses on Highway 401 -- ha! -- as much as I like Complete Streets). A proper Main/King 2-way conversion, in the LRT era, is absolutely critical, however. The time for Main/King urban expressways is over. I concede that can be botched into a dangerous 2-way street. Likewise, I concede it can be made into a beautiful 1-way street. But it's more long-term fixable than a permanently botched 1-way (e.g. putting separate LRT tracks on Main and on King, keeping sidewalks narrow, letting all cars zoom by traffic-prioritized-to-cars instead of traffic-prioritized-to-LRT/pedestrians), etc. If we are forced with an LRT decision (whether we like it or not; I do; but many others don't), the two-way options are, on average, more appealing (and city council botchings more fixable over the longterm) than the one-way options -- we can't trust the city to do a people-friendly 1-way conversion staying 1-way yet.
An informed reader can make informed judgement. Vote for it, or don't vote for it, whether you agree or disagree with me. For example, even myself I rather not have the LRT built, if the pair of rails cannot be kept together (e.g. breaking them 1 separate rail each for Main/for King -- a whopping 600 meters apart in some sections like near Sherman!) because that slams shut the door for future Main/King 2-way conversion, and makes it easier for future city councils to keep them as urban expressways if they wished, as an example. Cherry picking bad 2-way examples and good 1-way examples don't tell the whole story, but Main/King status quo definitely needs to be made far more people-friendly, regardless "one-way or another" (pun).
Comment edited by mdrejhon on 2015-08-11 12:48:00
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