Comment 94304

By any on amous (anonymous) | Posted November 06, 2013 at 09:50:17 in reply to Comment 94300

When the opponents of the Red Hill Creek expressway were told that the expressway would save hundreds of lives at the intersection of King and Highway 20 over its lifetime, they ignored the fact that the expressway, as all expressways do, saves lives. There is absolutely no proven correlation between Hamilton having "one" of the highest pedestrian death rates (not absolutes) and traffic speed. My guess is that death rates are bad because of all the monkeying around with traffic patterns. An example is the intersection of Markland and Hess which is now dangerous but never was before until they put in the bike lane traveling in the wrong direction. It would be interesting to do a longitudinal study by intersection and see if the danger to pedestrians is as a result of the changes to our traffic patterns as opposed to the theory you propose implicitly above. (By the way, I think Chasball's "moral indignation" is in response to the almost religiosity of the most of your arguments here. Why would you be offended? You argue exactly the same way.)

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