11-21-2022, 08:57 PM
(11-21-2022, 03:56 PM)SF22 Wrote: I hope that they do something with the King St Service Rd/King St intersection, because that is already a miserable road to turn left off of. They're definitely going to need to install a traffic light there, once there's a lot of extra traffic coming in and out of this area. I'd also love to see the on/off ramps lose their sweeping lanes, and restructure those connections through lighted intersections. It could help reclaim a bit of land, but mostly make the area safer for pedestrians and cyclists by slowing traffic and giving pedestrians some right-of-way (instead of the current set-up, which requires pedestrians and cyclists to wait for a break in traffic to cross the ramps).
I was musing about connecting the new development directly to the traffic light at the highway off ramp. Make the offramp just come out to the road in/out of the development.
Probably infeasible given the need to coordinate with MTO due to the involvement of the highway offramp, but this development is big enough it makes sense to reconsider nearby access roads.
I do think that it’s questionable to keep the circular end of the road, regardless of the above. The access into the development isn’t really just a driveway, even if it happens to be privately owned.