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By AlHuizenga (registered) | Posted June 04, 2013 at 08:27:03 in reply to Comment 89289
Thank you -Hammer-! Appreciate you making the positive arguments. I don't think they are very compelling, though.
Why are you so eager to sacrifice downtown Hamilton to Southern Ontario through traffic? Wouldn't it be great if people actually used King and Main to access the downtown, not speed across it?
I gather by "effective" you mean super fast. Why does there need to be a super fast east/west thoroughfare through lower Hamilton? If getting from Stoney Creek to Dundas or Ancaster is your goal, why not take the Linc or the 403? Isn't that what they're for?
As jason points out, most of those cities are struggling with how to constrain or dismantle their downtown thoroughfares, and they're a lot further along than we are.
Traffic adapts. It isn't a constant. You can definitely reduce traffic volume and speed on King and Main by narrowing them, converting to two-way, widening sidewalks, building a tree barrier, and adding bike lanes. Wouldn't that be great?
The Toronto subway is woeful. It's an international laughingstock, really. The entire TTC is suffering from massive, chronic under-investment. But you're right, we need to avoid congestion in the core. The way to do that is to develop public transit, not accommodate cars. So hey, let's get moving with LRT. It's only years away if we decide we don't want it now. And why in heaven's name would we decide that?
Two-way conversion encourages density. If you really want density, you should support two-way conversion.
Like traffic, public opinion adapts. It can be influenced by facts, arguments, and especially appeals to rational self-interest. It can take a long time to hit critical mass, but when it changes, it can happen really fast. You certainly don't get there by sticking to what's prudent and politically possible, or acquiescing to a ponderously slow bureaucracy. Why have you allowed your expectations to be reduced so dramatically?
Comment edited by AlHuizenga on 2013-06-04 08:28:58
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