Raise the Hammer

I couldn't agree more with the need to redifine truck...however whichever way you slice it, a 78 foot transport truck will still be considered a truck, and it is still unequivically dangerous for them to be on Dundurn St N. It is that decision, specifically I would like to address.

Having been on several occasions a small business owner, I am as 'business oriented' as perhaps anyone who posts to this forum regularly. I also live in a neighborhood which is neatly chopped into 4 'islands' by the anti-people truck policies in this city. I realize that businesses need to make money, and that short, convenient shipping routes are part of that. There is a need, however, in this city to reclaim our neighborhoods on a human scale.

We all recognize that it is going to be inconvenient, more expensive, and discouraging to trucking companies to not be able to go down Dundurn. We appreciate how difficult that will be. We also feel that it is FAR more important to maintain the safety, walkability and 'human scale' of our neighborhoods, especially when perfectly viable, if somewhat less convenient options for trucks already exist.

I understand that you feel the need for appropriate study, and for clearer heads to prevail, but no amount of study in the world is going to make Dundurn St. N safe for trucks. It is a fatality waiting to happen.

In other words, what exists here, is not a lack of good information, but rather a fundamental difference as to what the priorities of our city should be. Again, no amount of study will do anything other than highlight those differences.

I, for one, applaud council's decision to take Dundurn St. N off the truck route. Accurate origin/destination data is simply irrelevant. Trucks have no business being on that street.

Comment edited by jasonaallen on 2010-06-09 13:44:39