Comment 19274

By Frank (registered) | Posted February 25, 2008 at 15:00:45

I've been thinking about the whole two way thing a lot recently because I've had to drive downtown a lot recently. I worked downtown a few years ago and I liked the one way streets because they got me to work quickly. Driving up and down James Street a couple of times this weekend I was actually glad to be able to drive slow and have time to look around. If I wasn't doing renovations and not able to stop, I would've stopped in at a couple of places ot check them out. Instead I made a list of places I want to check out with my friends. Then...I drove down Main Street on my way home. What a difference. It reminded me of those dead corridors in TO that I had to march down while in the Teen Tour Band. Hardly any ped traffic - just cars on their way somewhere other than downtown. As a civil engineering technologist, I understand the need for proper traffic flow and levels of service at intersections but at some point there's got to be a change. Of course, LOS and traffic flow will be disrupted at first, that's a given but, it'll adapt. I believe that changing downtown's streets to two way will generate new economic opportunities and if people will just take an opportunity to drive downtown, get out of their cars and spend an afternoon walking into shops, I think that you'd find a lot of people with less stress than they have now. While we're at it, can we fix the misaligned stripes between King and Main? I almost got hit twice by ppl not paying attention. Let's do it...and let's do it right!

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