Comment 63280

By jason (registered) | Posted May 09, 2011 at 21:07:09

for those who didn't read Adrian's entire article, he concluded with some thoughts on changing how we engineer our city and our road network to allow a more safe interaction between uses.
My comment above was in relation to the overall street network and complete lack of balance in this city. I wasn't commenting on this specific accident. James and Charlton is actually reasonably decent (despite the crazy two-way 3/1 cross section) compared to most other lower city main streets. Research has proven time and time again that the likelihood of accidents being fatal dramatically drops when speeds are lowered to around 30-40km. You'd be hard pressed to find a main street anywhere in Hamilton where people do less than double those speeds: 60-80. Until we make basic, fundamental changes to our transportation network, you can expect more deaths. By all accounts the driver may have been completely surprised and driving safely in this particular accident. Those of you who live in Hamilton know that 9 times out of 10, fatalities happen on our one-way freeways and nobody - police/traffic department/most politicians ever say a single word about it. I for one, am not willing to sit back silently while we consider human tragedy an acceptable risk in our quest to zip to Hortons or work a minute faster. Hamilton is an insanely dangerous city.

Comment edited by jason on 2011-05-09 21:08:08

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