Comment 43503

By John Neary (registered) | Posted July 16, 2010 at 13:00:05

The main reason the 1-way streets don't continue through Westdale is because King and Main are the only long east-west roads in the area, and King ends at McMaster. If they continued the 1-way streets further, then drivers would be forced to do a Dundurn-style drag through a cramped residential area to make the connection where the 1-way ends/begins, and we all know what a great idea that is. At most you could extend it to Longwood instead of doing the endpoint at Paradise... not a big difference.

Not true. You could easily extend it to Forsyth Ave (right against McMaster campus.)

I agree that Main St. in Westdale (and all the way through west Hamilton) is a blight on the landscape. I used to live in Westdale, and I certainly avoided Main St. as much as possible. But it was nevertheless more pleasant to walk along than either Wilson or Cannon. I will give you that it is a very difficult street to cross, but that's mainly because it's so ridiculously wide.

I'd be very happy to see road narrowing and traffic calming measures on Main St. in Westdale. Creating a dedicated right of way for LRT would be one way to achieve that.

Notice: the proposed plan (two major arterial roads are 1-way, everything else is 2-way) is analogous to what we have in Westdale, with the gigantic urban highway of Main Street and then we have the commerce-friendly area of King Street.

A better analogy would be turning the downtown part of Main St. into a two way street optimized for bidirectional traffic flow and turning all three of the other large east-west streets (Wilson, King, and Cannon) into two-way streets with continuous street parking, unsynchronized lights, and pedestrian islands.

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