Comment 97266

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted January 29, 2014 at 09:48:25 in reply to Comment 97261

What does James Mountain Road have to do with it? It's always been steep and it's always been two-way. James is definitely a friendlier atmosphere than it was, for most of its length. It gets nasty for pedestrians as you go further south, mainly because the city half-assed the conversion - it retains the feel of a one way while having one lane in the other direction. The city needs to get rid of the "right turn only" lane from Main onto James South - it convinces people that James is still "the way up the mountain", encouraging people to drive up James and jog East on St. Josephs Drive as if it's the olden days of one ways. All of those cars should be on John.

John is another matter - it has been designed as too wide and too fast to be friendly for anyone. Is there a reason we need two lanes coming down the jolley, only to be squeezed down to one lane at the GO station? This fake highway from the top of the hill all the way down to augusta creates ripe conditions for festering driver anger, when they inevitably get stuck behind a bus. If it was one lane all the way from sam lawrence park, through the entire city, we would have room for turn lanes to get left turners out of the through traffic's way, and everyone would arrive at their destination much calmer and in the same amount of time - instead of widening out and racing down the mountain only to have to jam in together to get around the buses between hunter and Jackson. It would be hard to create a more road-rage inducing situation if one tried.

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