Comment 117683

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted April 15, 2016 at 08:52:24

Honestly, I keep coming back to Charlton and Herkimer. It's not just that they're fast streets in a residential area, it's that they're fast streets that funnel traffic onto roads like Locke and Dundurn. Without those little highways there, drivers would take the most direct route to Main/King to travel across the city.

Sadly, council will never let them be calmed since I'm sure a good chunk of council (particularly Whitehead) use them to get around near City Hall.

On the subject of dropping kids off by car - the thing is that in a modern dual-income household, it just makes sense for parents who are driving to work to drive to the school. Particularly when you figure all the after-school activities kids are scheduled into these days. I drop off my kids by car on days when I need to pick up my son from violin after school - on other days I walk the kids and then take transit/bike to work.

So in a sense, transit is the key variable here - if you're driving to work, of course you're going to drive your kids to the school on the way. Even if the kids won't be taking the bus because the school is in walking distance, what matters is what happens after the kids get dropped of.

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