Comment 69790

By jason (registered) | Posted September 17, 2011 at 10:51:44 in reply to Comment 69743

I've only seen the odd bottleneck on Main, but that was when they had taken two lanes for some initial truck movements etc..... Keep in mind, in all of these cases, we are talking about lane narrowing that suddenly appears to drivers. If Main was 3 lanes all the way from Westdale it would flow smoothly. Too smoothly in fact. The traffic would simply be 'strung out' in a longer blob instead of a short blob zipping through followed by a completely empty street for 1-2 minutes. Hamilton is simply not big enough to need one-ways. We narrowed King to 2 lanes with bumpouts and parking in the IV, yet people still scream through there from east of Wellington. Put them all back to two-way, add LRT, plant a ton of trees, add street parking and watch these streets come back to life the same way Locke, James, King (Westdale) and Ottawa have.

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