Comment 93007

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted October 08, 2013 at 10:50:36 in reply to Comment 93001

While main and cannon are another matter altogether, I actually like the Metrolinx plan for keeping King one-way and running the LRT along the South side of King. The International Village demonstrates how one-way traffic can be safe at rush-hour when it's not a zillion lanes wide. 2 lanes of live traffic (until it opens up at Queen street) seems fine.

The main/cannon pair are the big sticking point. Once the LRT converts King in Central/East areas into a livable street, and Cannon gets its bi-directional protected bike-lane, that's going to mean that the remaining 3 lanes of Cannon->Queen->King will become the primary westbound corridor - something like 3-5 total lanes of Eastbound 1-way traffic down from the current 5-8. I think that might be a manageable compromise... I could certainly live with it, but then I don't live near Cannon or Queen.

Either way though, Main street will still need a 2-way conversion or a road diet of some kind (the #YesWeCannon treatment, please?).

Give me all that, convert all the secondary/tertiary 1-ways to 2-way, do something about York Boulevard, put up some kind of pedestrian crossing/protection on all the slip-road turns around the city (stop sign, yield-to-pedestrians sign, whatever) and I'll be satisfied.

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