Comment 113605

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted August 21, 2015 at 19:41:17 in reply to Comment 113591

I used to think it was crazy to eliminate through traffic from herkimer and charlton but now I see that it is necessary if we expect Durand to be a neighbourhood.

We must ask what destinations these streets are being used to access. THe reality is, most traffic on the streets can be served by our true arteries and should not be anywhere near these streets. Try to drive through a Toronto neighbourhood on any side street - you can't. You have to go to a major street to move between neighbourhoods and only drive on side streets for the minimum distance required to reach the address you're going to.

The following is a sample of traffic that should not be on Herkimer or Charlton

  • going to the hospital from the 403 (should take main to james)
  • going up the jolley from the west (should take main to john)
  • going from kirkendall to james south (shouldn't be driving at all such a short distance)
  • going north on james from kirkendall (should take bay or queen or locke to main or york etc) going to the 403 from st joes (should take james or john to king or cannon) going to the west end from up the mountain via claremont which ends at charlton (Should be taking linc to 403 otherwise claremont to victoria to cannon)

these streets are only through streets because we built them that way, and will continue to be through streets until we do something about it.

As long as we let through traffic use them, these will continue to be extensions of the 403 ramps for ever and ever.

We need to decide what streets are truly going to be our arteries and cut through traffic from every other street.

I vote down for offensiveness and up for humour. I cast no votes based on my level of agreement.

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