Comment 54226

By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted January 01, 2011 at 16:26:43

@SpaceMonkey

Let me just get a personal declaration out of the way: I cannot stand our one-way thoroughfares in Hamilton.

Main Street from Longwood to Bay.

King from Bay through to Paradise.

(the Main Street West 'Esplanade' signs make me do spit-take each and every time I've seen one.)

I've driven on one-way streets in Canada, in the US (New York CIty most notably) and in Britain. And there's something particularly despicable about these two stretches, they seem to embody everything bad about one-way streets. Mostly that they're not roads at all, they're simply inner-city highways. That people cling to their merits and seem prepared to defend them to the death mystifies me to no end.

(And I have to say that I can't say that I share your notion about the prevalence of speeding on one- and two-way streets...though I can easily get my head around the concept that on two-way streets, people's perception about their speed can be dulled by traffic passing the other way. My experience on both types of streets is the opposite from yours.)

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