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Old Posted Mar 9, 2014, 4:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Horsell View Post
You are probably right on that count. While it may be frustrating at times to be crawling along Water St. or Duckworth St. at 2km hour, there is probably a reason drivers do it, either to snag that prime parking spot or a little sightseeing. If you are really in a hurry to go East/West you will use Harbour Dr.

IF we had more parking downtown perhaps it would be a good idea to remove parking from one side of those streets to improve the flow a little and/or promote more sidewalk "cafe" or "leisure" space in the summer. Just some thoughts.
Lessons from other cities have taught us that one-way streets are not effective for building safe streets for people. They speed up vehicle traffic (which is a bad thing on Water/Duckworth). This has been seen in Montreal, where many downtown streets are one-way (it was done for this purpose - to speed up travel by car).

I don't like catering to cars. Both diagonal parking and one-way streets will do just that. Believe it or not, making parking worse will actually work in favour of public transit.
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