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By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted August 26, 2013 at 16:17:23 in reply to Comment 91294
I partially agree with this point. We shouldn't be designing our streets to accomodate transport trucks. However, we should be designing them to be accomodating to visitors, and not locking them in gridlock which would cause them to favour a bypass of the city. Heck, I dread going to Toronto by any route but the GO because of traffic issues, and would go and spend more money there far more if I didn't have to pay $20 to get their via rail or wait at least 2 hours in traffic. This is the economic costs of congestion in action, and we want to avoid this. This is espcially true when you have a major tourist route in highway 8 that naturally connects to King/Main.
However, majority of users of the inner city arteries are people who live there, as it's a predominantly residential area east of the core proper until past the Red Hill. Heavy Truck and Industrial traffic tends to stick to the Linc or Burlington St where they belong, and because it is faster to bypass the city and not get off the highway to get to the 403 from the QEW.
The fundamental issue is people in the core or people on the brow of the mountain should have to drive to Burlington St or to the Linc to utilize an appreciably fast East/West artery.
However, that all being said, having ONE and ONLY ONE major artery every 2KM seems reasonable to me, which is the exsisting configuration of Burlington St, King/Main and the Linc. Cannon has no reason to be treated in a similar fashion, nor Charlton, nor York/Wilson, nor Hunter and I advocate their conversion to two way, slower streets.
Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2013-08-26 16:23:09
Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!
http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html
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