02-27-2018, 12:04 PM
It certainly “should” be an arterial looking at the map, but it is in fact entirely residential, and those houses have been there for fifty or sixty years.
I think the issue isn’t that these residents with million dollar houses strong-armed the city into giving them special traffic-calming measures, so much as it is that the city doesn’t provide any traffic-calming measures for residents elsewhere. I don’t begrudge these people those things- I want them on my own street.
Reasonably, 60km/h would probably never be on the table for Glasgow. Weber Street in Kitchener is 50, for instance. So how much of a difference would 10km/h make? And difference to what? There’s not exactly gridlock; does traffic on Glasgow ever get backed up, even by KW standards?
I think the issue isn’t that these residents with million dollar houses strong-armed the city into giving them special traffic-calming measures, so much as it is that the city doesn’t provide any traffic-calming measures for residents elsewhere. I don’t begrudge these people those things- I want them on my own street.
Reasonably, 60km/h would probably never be on the table for Glasgow. Weber Street in Kitchener is 50, for instance. So how much of a difference would 10km/h make? And difference to what? There’s not exactly gridlock; does traffic on Glasgow ever get backed up, even by KW standards?