12-11-2015, 09:03 AM
(12-10-2015, 10:41 PM)ookpik Wrote: With the current limit 50, most traffic does 60-70, and some even faster. I'd rather see the limit at 60 and enforced, perhaps with photo-radar, than at 50 and ignored, both by drivers and the cops. I'll bet average speeds would be lower than they are today. IMO that would be safer for pedestrians. (As would a signalled crossing where Laurel Cr crosses Bridgeport, just as there is where it crosses Erb.)
Again: if most traffic is doing 60-70, and some even faster (which I agree is the case), it's because the road is designed to allow those speeds. Redesigning the road is the only way to prevent those speeds. If motorists are ignoring the current posted speed limit, they will ignore a new posted speed limit.
Unfortunately, realistically, photo radar is for the time being not going to be an option in this province. Earlier this year, the current government said as much when York Region was to request the ability to use it.
Converting these things to two-way traffic would be easy and cheap. Traffic could flow at fifty kilometres per hour as it does on many other two-way streets but, outside of peak hours, motorists would not be faced with a freeway that encourages speeds of 70km/h or faster.