Comment 114991

By notlloyd (registered) - website | Posted November 21, 2015 at 07:11:06 in reply to Comment 114910

I had the pleasure (not) of driving along Stonechurch between Upper Wellington and Upper Ottawa last night at 4:30. They have reduced the road from 4 lanes to two with two bike lanes and one centre turning lane as you know (much like Ryan is proposing here for Aberdeen.) Literally, car lights stretched in both directions as far as I could see. I had to stop for multiple light changes at each intersection. I didn't time it but it took a long time. I didn't see one bike. There are vast stretches of turning lane where there is nothing to turn into as there are actually no driveways or roads to turn into.

I make three observations:

  1. There was a lot of wasted infrastructure. (empty unused road while the two lanes were massively congested.)
  2. There was a lot of wasted time (all those people trudging along when they could have driven in the empty space)
  3. Those cars were sitting around spewing a lot of unnecessary pollution.

I don't know if it is always like that because I rarely go up there, but I drove back along the Linc and it was worse. Maybe it is only busy because the Linc needs more lanes. A cheap and easy solution would be to put back the two lanes.

Comment edited by notlloyd on 2015-11-21 08:12:05

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