Comment 100196

By notlloyd (registered) - website | Posted April 11, 2014 at 07:47:24 in reply to Comment 100192

I didn't read the comments as being in support of "through," I read it as supporting "to."

Reading it carefully, I read that while he doesn't support it, turning Main into a two way after John would stop people using Main a freeway. Ryan's comments completely ignore the main concern of Main West, as I read it, that there are thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of people who come downtown every day to work.

Somewhere in this line of discussion someone else said that what needs to be studied is how many people acatually do that. With that I whole heartedly agree.

Some out of the box thinking may be required. Many other cities have mulitlpe entrances. Essentially Main street is the only one for people commuting in the morning.

I see four or five lanes of traffic full up from Dundurn to as far as I can see up Queen every day a lot of the time. As someone says it travels in waves as happens on one way streets. But it is of significant volume. As a layman, looking at that traffic, in my head I cannot imagine how one effective through lane (as buses and bikes would uses the other) could every conceivably manage that volume of traffic. Ergo the concern that if people cannpt get downtown to work, what happens to the remaining "private" employers. (Presumably the government can force their employees to sit in traffic.)

(how do you post pictures here becasue if I could do it I would demonstrate what I saw yesterday at 5:30)

As to the through traffic problem, a perimetre road travelling one of the underused rail right of ways might solve the problem. But I think the last time that was suggested people went apolplectic.

Comment edited by notlloyd on 2014-04-11 07:48:40

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