Comment 93916

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted October 29, 2013 at 15:12:32 in reply to Comment 93912

Hamilton has now adopted an official transportation hierarchy that places pedestrians at the top and private motor vehicles at the bottom. Council also signed the pedestrian charter, that commits the city to actions to improve the safety and convenience of pedestrians.

We also adopted, over ten years ago, a downtown secondary plan called "putting people first" that also said we should prioritize pedestrians.

So, these official planning and policy documents have very clearly defined "what we want".

We could have decided to adopt the "motorists charter", a secondary plan called "putting cars first", or a transportation hierarchy that places private motor vehicles at the top, but that's not what our elected representatives and planners did.

A lot of the frustration around here come from the fact that the City's very clear public declarations of "what we want" are not backed up by engineering decisions on the ground, which default back to convenience for motorists as the top (and often only) objective.

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