Comment 26984

By jason (registered) | Posted October 23, 2008 at 17:50:24

We've sacrificed so much safety in our society it's pretty ridiculous. As far as I know it's illegal for pedestrians to walk along the QEW. There's a reason for that - it's a high speed road. Why then do we try to take dense, urban neighbourhoods full of schools, homes, kids, parks, shops, malls, restaurants etc.... and ram high speed roads through them?? If the government doesn't want people mixing with high speed traffic on freeways, doesn't it make sense that they should not want high speed traffic mixing with people on downtown streets???
Sadly, Hamilton's police are very quiet on this issue (despite being the organization most in tune with safety issues in the city) and city hall is full of councillors who kick and scream like little kids at the mere suggestion of making our downtown streets safer. Maybe I'll see if I can get those same councillors to legalize bikes and pedestrians on area highways since they love mixing humans with high speed traffic.

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