12-11-2015, 04:14 PM
(12-11-2015, 04:07 PM)SammyOES Wrote: Obviously I think it should change - I said how I think it should change (although my statements have been more based on a limitless funding world - I'm not sure I think the roads should be changed in our limited resources world). I don't think its a big problem now, and the solutions some of you are presenting seem bad to me (again, I outlined why).
It's fine to disagree on how we trade off foot friendly and car friendly designs.
The changes you said you'd like to see (eliminate one lane of car traffic to allow for infrastructure for people on foot and bike) are not only not particularly expensive, but reduce the Region's expenses in the long-run: you will have eliminated a pretty significant ongoing maintenance cost in favour of a lesser one. So it's not a question of funds. Switching these streets back to normal would not be particularly costly, either.
When I hear that this isn't the place (and by place I guess we're meaning maybe a two-kilometre by five hundred or so meter swath of Waterloo) to worry about a friendly environment for people on foot, that doesn't sound like some of us are looking for trade-offs.