General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

My impression of that stretch of Glasgow is that the residents are not just considerably wealthy, but also very well connected. I don't know specific connections, but they're the sort of people who are actively engaged community members. They are in the various social clubs, on boards of community events and regional organizations. They participate in big community events. They golf together at the exclusive club on that stretch of road.

For the most part I don't think these are particularly bad people, and they are likely responsible for quite a lot of good in our community but they're also quite happy to leverage their networks to resist the fact that that stretch of road is not a quiet neighbourhood street but a very useful through path from one of the heavier suburban areas into the downtown core.

"Bad people"...no that's a value judgement.  But as you say, they do enjoy outsized political clout, and they're happy to use it.  They also seem to act with an air of entitlement about their (through) road (which is certainly not unique in our region).

Whether you consider these things bad traits or not, and whether those few traits are reflective of a person as a whole, is a value judgement, but objectively those traits seem to be true.

The end result however, is that there is that the road is getting less safe for cyclists, and worse, there is a sense of unfairness to it which undermines confidence in our system of government.

[ end of rant ]