05-16-2020, 11:04 AM
(05-16-2020, 10:40 AM)jamincan Wrote: Fairway from River to King is another road that would work far better as two-lanes plus a turning lane. River is also massively overbuilt at four lanes. We need to fight road-obesity!
River absolutely should be rebuilt as a narrower road. But I think the city is on board with that.
Fairway would be a far bigger fight. The worst part is we would be fighting the sunk costs fallacy--they already spent huge sums of money building a 4 lane bridge over the Grand River. Not exactly to nowhere, but way way over capacity. So because they've made these huge investments, and their traffic models show if they keep building sprawling suburbs with no other choice but to drive, that in 30 years, they'll need four lanes (never mind climate change will be a complete failure in that universe) therefore, they have to widen it all to four lanes.
Honestly, I don't know what to do about the region. Few councillors have shown any interest in changing, and staff are FIRMLY in the "do the same as we've always done, NEVER change" camp.