Comment 96739

By seancb (registered) - website | Posted January 12, 2014 at 10:27:42 in reply to Comment 96733

Here are some numbers: http://raisethehammer.org/article/1731/

Unfortunately, the hourly data is not easy to obtain as the city guards it quite closely. It would be nice to have open data for all of us to see, but that isn't the case. Occasionally they let some of their counts out of the vault.

A major city will have occasional slowdowns due to rush hour, collisions, road work, etc - we cannot design these streets to be empty 95% of the time in order to smooth out the busier 5% - this is the kind of infrastructure spending that has brought us to the point of having a billion dollar deficit that grows by over 70 million a year...

The article shows Queen Street during a weekday. It's not as if the author went out at 2am to prove the street is overbuilt. I'm sorry if my original comment sounded harsh, I did not mean it that way. These sorts of questions have been answered over and over on this site. Numbers have been presented, photographic evidence of different streets at busy times of day - but it's never enough. There's always an accusation or a question that the data isn't "real" for some reason. Meanwhile we suffer with an enormous tax burden driven largely by our roads spending. It's not something the citizens can afford!

Comment edited by seancb on 2014-01-12 10:31:57

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

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