05-10-2017, 08:46 AM
(05-10-2017, 07:16 AM)MidTowner Wrote: My reaction to hearing about this street closure to non-residents was...why can't we do this in more places? This quiet street in the township has for reasons of the construction been introduced to the dangers of rat running, has understandably been upset by it, and found a solution.
With electronically-controlled bollards, the cost of enforcing street restrictions is a lot less than paying construction workers to do it. We could make sure the streets that have been designed to serve as arterials do so, and not our residential streets.
Yeah, this makes sense in a city or town where the nearest alternative is a couple of minutes and a few hundred meters away. When you force an alternative detour of 10km away, it seems pretty ridiculous to me.
People in this thread are justifiably upset that a previous detour over a bridge cost provincial taxpayers a million dollars. But we don't seem to be equally upset that we're forcing a much smaller group to pay a significant fraction of that.