[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

[ookpik]

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.

That's a very big, expensive and likely highly contentious issue. Even if you could make a good case, it would take many years to get approval, let alone carry out the implementation. And recall that those streets were originally converted from 2-way to 1-way some decades ago in anticipation of increasing traffic volumes. All I can say is, "Good luck with that."

OTOH there are two very simple measures that (thinking) city planners could take that would be cheap to implement and require little or no public consultation:
1. Coordinate the traffic light sensors on minor cross streets like Bluevale to participate in the green wave rather than disrupt it as they now do.
2. Put up signs along Bridgeport and Erb to indicate green wave timing is in effect and remind drivers that resistancespeeding is thus futile.