09-15-2015, 07:31 AM
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5842...c-calming/
The revised plan eliminates the safety islands and restores parking to both sides of the street. It also eliminates the buffer between bike lanes and passing traffic.
The city's director of transportation services, Justin Readman, agreed the rocky process contained some lessons. Despite two public meetings, two mail-outs of information and both a survey and a door-to-door consultation, the process was confusing: the city requires a majority of residents to be in favour of traffic calming changes, but cycling infrastructure is approved by council and isn't up for review by neighbourhoods. In the future, where the city has both traffic calming and cycling changes to make on a street, it would carry them out separately so the process is clearer, he said.
The revised plan eliminates the safety islands and restores parking to both sides of the street. It also eliminates the buffer between bike lanes and passing traffic.
The city's director of transportation services, Justin Readman, agreed the rocky process contained some lessons. Despite two public meetings, two mail-outs of information and both a survey and a door-to-door consultation, the process was confusing: the city requires a majority of residents to be in favour of traffic calming changes, but cycling infrastructure is approved by council and isn't up for review by neighbourhoods. In the future, where the city has both traffic calming and cycling changes to make on a street, it would carry them out separately so the process is clearer, he said.