09-18-2017, 03:01 PM
(09-18-2017, 02:23 PM)tomh009 Wrote: Why would a 3m-wide trail increase animosity over the current 2.6m-wide trail?
I think he means as traffic increases, and compared to a wider trail. Presumably 3.0m will be better than 2.6m, but not by much and the difference is likely to be swallowed by increasing traffic.
Re: the “uniform width” thing, yeah, do these planners actually read what they write? That’s just absurd. Even road projects sometimes give up on widening in certain segments for a substantial period of time — e.g. Weber St. just north of Victoria St. for many years until the recent widening, and Highway 6 through Morriston. An MUT can definitely go wide opportunistically and narrow where needed. This is exactly the kind of utter nonsense that destroys my faith in their professionalism. At this point I barely default to granting planners, as a class, any expert knowledge at all. By contrast, you won’t see me second-guessing an electrician’s choice of wire gauge.