Comment 78954

By Ryan (registered) - website | Posted June 27, 2012 at 07:45:17 in reply to Comment 78953

It would make a big difference to people driving south on Locke Street. Currently, the alternatives are:

  • Head west to Margaret or Strathcona, jog up to Main, turn left onto Main and try to get across five lanes in time to turn right on Locke; or

  • If you're starting north of Morden, head east to Pearl, cross King and try to sprint across Main during a break in traffic so you can turn right on Jackson and jog back to Locke.

It would also make a difference to people walking south on Locke. I do this walk every day, and by far the least pleasant part starts at the northwest corner of Locke and King and ends at the southeast corner of Locke and Main.

  • You can't cross King at Locke on the west side (lest you get in the way of a car turning westbound), so you need to cross to the east side first before crossing King.

  • The lights are timed so that east-west traffic gets a much longer green light than north-south traffic, so you end up having to stand on a narrow sidewalk right next to four lanes of high-speed traffic on King on the northwest corner - and then again on the northeast corner.

  • Then you have to walk down a narrow sidewalk on Locke, right next to two lanes of northbound traffic racing between Main and King, even though the traffic lights are timed so that cars going north invariably get stopped at a red light on King.

  • Again, thanks to timing, you have to stop at the corner of Main and Locke on another narrow sidewalk, right next to five lanes of traffic for a long green light cycle on Main.

There's absolutely no reason not to make Locke two-way - one lane in each direction - between Main and King.

Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat.
-- Stuart Chase

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