Comment 77436

By adrian (registered) | Posted May 29, 2012 at 07:21:58 in reply to Comment 77434

If you support dedicated bicycle lanes, the removal of car lanes to build them, wider sidewalks (which also generally mean fewer lanes), speed humps, and other traffic calming measures, then clearly you agree that motorists ought to sacrifice some of their convenience and ability to blast through downtown in the interest of improving neighbourhoods and making them better for pedestrians and cyclists.

Given that, what is your problem with two-way streets? Is there something morally repugnant about cars going both ways on the same street? (Perhaps a touch of bidirectional-phobia?) The idea that two-way traffic causes more pollution is a red herring (in walkable neighbourhoods, more people walk and cycle, which is better for the environment), and so is the false claim that one-ways are safer.

Or, given that creating wider sidewalks and dedicated, separated bicycle lanes would likely be more expensive than simply painting a yellow line down the middle of the road and adding some stoplights, is your support of those measures just a delay tactic?

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