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Originally Posted by saskatoonborn
So they want to have College Drive 80 km/hr for everything east of Preston... because they didnt design McCormond and College overpass for more than 80km/hr traffic??? What the hell? Why would they do such a silly thing as that?
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I have followed this closely and it seems to me that there are people in city hall who are HELL BENT on turning College Drive into another 22nd Street West cluster F.... They want to put in numerous intersections along College. They are already putting in a right in only into Brighton just past the railway overpass. It was originally going to be an intersection with lights. To say the overpass was designed with 80Kph in mind is a flat out LIE. All streets and infastructure is designed for speeds above the planned speed limit. This design is no different that the Boychuck interchange. Plus, the design is better than other overpasses in the city along Circle Drive with a speed of 90kph.
College Drive NEEDS TO BE A FREEWAY. Eventually between University Heights and Holmwood there will be 100,000 people living in this area with College as the only primary access to downtown. As a freeway it will make the perfect rapid transit corridor.
But alas, only someone who is incompetent would not be able to figure out that College Drive needs to be a Freeway/Rapid Transit Corridor with no traffic lights.
(Sorry for the rant but the incompetence with respect to College Drive is really ticking me off)