Comment 97187

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted January 25, 2014 at 10:08:13 in reply to Comment 97158

Thinking it over, I can see how Peter street happens - a driver pulls onto Queen, sees a long queue of cars, and turns right to exploit that clever route only he knows. All the "normal" drivers patiently wait in the queue at Queen, but the "clever" ones who seek any possible way to shorten their commute go down Peter. So you've already filtered out the patient people, and have only the impatient drivers heading down the street - and I wouldn't think impatient folks would drive slow.

A no-right-turn sign has been used elsewhere in the city - there's a similar sign on Wellington keeping drivers from using Simcoe/Ferguson to get over the train tracks when a slow-moving train is blocking them (yeah, my bad, totally used to do that myself).

Personally I don't like the no-right-turn and would prefer alternate traffic control measures - all the one-ways make it hard-enough to navigate this city, it doesn't need to be any harder to figure out how to get where you're headed. Hopefully speed-bumps and other calming will work for Peter Street.

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