06-10-2020, 10:53 AM
(06-10-2020, 08:21 AM)clasher Wrote: I don't think West Ave. is a truck route, though there are hydro trucks that go down that stretch it still seems like another unnecessarily wide road. It would be a great place to set up photo-radar though.
When I say “space required”, I mean literally the smallest space which the truck can physically fit through. My suggested width is nowhere near enough for a truck route — full size trucks would have to line themselves up just right and squeeze through. To smaller vehicles, even cars, it would feel like a very narrow space, just not quite as extremely tight as for a large truck.
I don’t think the road can be made narrow enough that trucks literally don’t fit at all. Almost every location needs occasional visits from trucks for various deliveries.
I like the idea of having single-lane sections of some streets. I can’t speak to whether this is a good location for it, but there certainly are places in my neighbourhood where it would make a lot of sense to narrow a street to a single bidirectional lane for a path crossing.