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Originally Posted by steveosnyder
On the same path as Bomberjet -- the City of Winnipeg Major Project site says that the widening of Panet/Molson is needed to increase safety at the Concordia intersection. They also state that a round-about wasn't a good idea because of the heavy pedestrian traffic.
How is making a 2 lane street with heavy pedestrian traffic into 5 lanes (2 thru each way plus 1 turning) safer? I hate traffic engineers -- free flow traffic at designed speeds does not create safety, especially in high pedestrian traffic areas, it's actually been proven that it creates more dangerous situations, especially for the people walking.
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I don't disagree with you about the pedestrian thing. But's it's not very safe right now for vehicles or pedestrians. Creating proper crossing corridors and proper bus stops will go a long way to help pedestrians. Currently you have one lane for traffic to go in three directions, that's not very safe for vehicles
Traffic does not stop at roundabouts (theoretically). Traffic stops at traffic lights (guaranteed). That's where pedestrians are safer.