Comment 94693

By huh? (anonymous) | Posted November 13, 2013 at 01:19:26 in reply to Comment 94685

to put the province's guidelines in perspective: if the average walking speed is somewhere around 5 km/h and the average driving speed is around 50 km/h in the city then 200m is to a pedestrian what 2km is to a driver. if we had the same guidelines for drivers it would mean that if you were driving along james street north and wanted to cross king street you would have to drive either west to DUNDURN or east to beyond WENTWORTH just to cross king! and then of course you would need to drive back to james street. the city would never impose this type of restriction on a motorist so why do we expect pedestrians to simply accept this serious impediment to travel?

and this is just a time consideration which does factor in the added elements of weather, effort, or simple phycological barriers. if we want people to walk, bike, and take transit in this city we need to make it easier by using more realistic metrics.

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