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By jason (registered) | Posted July 18, 2015 at 09:01:00 in reply to Comment 112807
C'mon Ryan, you should know better. I always go to the CAA and get one of those huge fold-out maps with the highlighted route options when going to the mall in my own city.
Bad enough that you can't simply go the same route car drivers would take because streets carrying 15,000 cars apparently need 5 lanes (50,000 vehicle capacity).
Short of safe bike infrastructure on all major street like the editor of 'Wheels' magazine called for recently, we refuse to even create safe neighbourhood greenway routes as an alternative.
City staff can't envision a world where cars aren't able to go 2x the speed limit whenever and wherever they want.
I emailed staff recently to complain that after years of begging for south curb-lane parking on King West, it was recently removed just after the bus lane was removed.
So this stretch of King, west of Queen which was a total freeway during the bus lane period AND had 24-7 south curb parking is now back to 5 full lanes 24-7. Staff replied that their 'data' showed we need all 5 lanes or there will be huge congestion.
I asked for this data. Not holding my breath.
We also suggested they paint a bike lane along the mega wide north-curb lane of King from James to Dundurn and mark 24-7 car parking along that curb (remember, the phoney reason Chad Collins wanted to remove the bus lane? To re-instate the 24-7 business parking. Shocking. It's not happening). They responded: we can't because LRT will be coming in a decade. That's right. We can't paint lines on a road because something might change in 10 years.
You can't make this stuff up. City hall doesn't care.
Comment edited by jason on 2015-07-18 09:03:06
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