Comment 96762

By kevlahan (registered) | Posted January 13, 2014 at 12:25:55 in reply to Comment 96758

And, exasperatingly, the City is in the process of making Longwood even more STROAD-like, with the addition of a central turning lane. EVEN THOUGH the stated goal of the re-design was to make a complete street that encourages cycling and walking! At least the STROAD in the video has wide sidewalks; Hamilton's STROADS have all the bad features of the STROAD in the video, but with extra narrow sidewalks!

It seems that Hamilton has decided that ALL arterial streets (and some collectors) should be designed as STROADS, forgetting that trying to build a high speed road in an urban street environment just doesn't work for anyone.

In some cases, the City has gone pretty far in making arterials look like freeways (think Main West), even to the extent of limiting access and building multiple physical barriers to stop pedestrians and vehicles coming from side streets (the blocks just south of Main St East between Wellington and Victoria are an appalling example of cutting off a residential neighbourhood by freeway type on-ramp barriers), but at the cost of extreme damage to livability and the local economy.

Comment edited by kevlahan on 2014-01-13 12:27:12

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