Comment 43465

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted July 16, 2010 at 10:27:59

If you think Main Street in Westdale is any safer than the 1-way streets in downtown, I've got a bridge I'd like to sell you.

The main reason the 1-way streets don't continue through Westdale is because King and Main are the only long east-west roads in the area, and King ends at McMaster. If they continued the 1-way streets further, then drivers would be forced to do a Dundurn-style drag through a cramped residential area to make the connection where the 1-way ends/begins, and we all know what a great idea that is. At most you could extend it to Longwood instead of doing the endpoint at Paradise... not a big difference.

If there was another main-like street running through Westdale, I'd be all for keeping the 1-way traffic going through. Then maybe you could turn left somewhere. And you wouldn't need to make the road a hundred lanes wide.

Notice: the proposed plan (two major arterial roads are 1-way, everything else is 2-way) is analogous to what we have in Westdale, with the gigantic urban highway of Main Street and then we have the commerce-friendly area of King Street.

We're talking about putting the same thing in downtown. And it works for Westdale.

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