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By CharlesBall (registered) | Posted November 19, 2014 at 14:37:20 in reply to Comment 106307
"No one, as far as I can tell, is saying, "We will all die if we don't lower the speed limit"."
But they are, right here on this page and elsewhere.
By UrbanMom (registered) | Posted November 18, 2014 at 14:40:47
I, too, am a parent living in the Durand. We're at Robinson and Bay. Both streets are awful. Bay street is full of people racing off the Charlton light to get to Hunter as fast as possible. Even when the school warning lights are flashing and I am walking my 7yo to school every day, the traffic is frighteningly fast with the added factor of having the cars in the western-most lane driving alarmingly close to the curb.
There are accidents at our corner and at Duke and Bay weekly. A young man died two weeks ago - he was speeding on a motorcycle, a cab was speeding around the corner. My son and I witnessed an accident a few feet in front of us at Duke a few months ago. Just this morning new bits of car littered the road there from an accident that must have happened since yesterday at 3pm. There is a very clear problem in our neighbourhood that involved traffic, speed and crossings.
I started a small group on Facebook to discuss turning the entire Durand into a 30km zone, the way the North End neighbourhood did. There currently isn't much happening there as I'm not quite sure what to do but I definitely support all efforts to eliminate cut through traffic and slow local traffic. If anyone wants to come be a part of my little group and perhaps use that to get support for existing initiatives or a gathering place to create an initiative they can find it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/72251872...
Comment edited by UrbanMom on 2014-11-18 14:45:35
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By jason (registered) | Posted November 18, 2014 at 18:53:22 in reply to Comment 106273
so glad to see your initiative. Great work Yet, so sad that you (and all of us) need to do this in our own neighbourhoods because city hall only values our neighbourhoods as dangerous raceways to their monster surface parking lot.
Someday I hope we'll see civic leadership that actually values urban neighbourhoods and wants to see families enjoying life downtown.
In the meantime, keep up the battle.
"People are allowed to advocate to make their neighbourhood safer, especially in the face of new information."
Just like the lady who was at Doors who doesn't want the change.
People who live in the neighborhood and are more than happy with the status quo are either dismissed at best or villianized at worst.
Using words like "university freshman logical fallacy terms", " straw man" and troll are demeaning tripe.
I posed questions, not statements.
No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? George Orwell
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