03-05-2015, 01:44 PM
For people living in the lower city, Hamilton's one-way streets are a nightmare: if you live on one, traffic goes by needlessly fast in front of your home. Even if not, streets like Main and King and Victoria and Wentworth are so unpleasant to cross that they effectively bisect neighbourhoods.
It's not the fact that one-ways can be confusing. It's that they are so hostile to any form of transportation besides the automobile. They've been bad for Hamilton. We shouldn't have it as our goal for people to be able to drive the length of our city quickly. When they do need to get from one side to the other, that's why we have an expressway.
It's not the fact that one-ways can be confusing. It's that they are so hostile to any form of transportation besides the automobile. They've been bad for Hamilton. We shouldn't have it as our goal for people to be able to drive the length of our city quickly. When they do need to get from one side to the other, that's why we have an expressway.