Comment 38280

By John Neary (registered) | Posted February 21, 2010 at 14:44:14

Further to Michelle's excellent piece, perhaps the crux of the problem is not that our city prioritizes cars over people but that it prioritizes long-distance over local travel. To a certain extent, that may be a consequence of our physical geography. Few cities are five times as long as they are wide (as the lower city of Hamilton is), and few have topographical obstacles as challenging as the escarpment. With our small number of east-west streets and our similarly small number of routes up and down the escarpment, it's not surprising that we designed our infrastructure to minimize car bottlenecks, while sacrificing the interests of pedestrians, cyclists, and short-trip motorists.

Foolish, but not surprising.

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