tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post4766492086751947163..comments2024-02-27T12:08:54.327-05:00Comments on Images of Centretown: A Sidewalk Too FarCentretownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03798054152996264061noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-53438155683630046872011-11-19T23:00:34.939-05:002011-11-19T23:00:34.939-05:00I couldn't agree more with "Ottawa Bike G...I couldn't agree more with "Ottawa Bike Guy" with respect to lowering the speed limit. Residential areas in Europe have a speed limit of walking pace (7 km per hour) through 15, 20, 25 and 30 depending on population densities. A lower speed limit makes the city safer, healthier, more attractive and more equitable for all road users. It also keeps the noise down. <br /><br />It's about time the city stopped planning for cars and focused on the green transportation hierarchy as RMOC was doing prior to the disastrous amalgamation of our former municipalities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-43887809226003652072011-11-19T23:00:05.681-05:002011-11-19T23:00:05.681-05:00I couldn't agree more with "Ottawa Bike G...I couldn't agree more with "Ottawa Bike Guy" with respect to lowering the speed limit. Residential areas in Europe have a speed limit of walking pace (7 km per hour) through 15, 20, 25 and 30 depending on population densities. A lower speed limit makes the city safer, healthier, more attractive and more equitable for all road users. It also keeps the noise down. <br /><br />It's about time the city stopped planning for cars and focused on the green transportation hierarchy as RMOC was doing prior to the disastrous amalgamation of our former municipalities.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-41399330598654909632011-11-08T15:39:10.183-05:002011-11-08T15:39:10.183-05:00Best thing for pedestrians is to lower the speed l...Best thing for pedestrians is to lower the speed limit in the city to 30 like they do in so many European cities. While Colonel By may be an NCC road it is a racetrack sometimes rather than a "driveway". More pedestrian flashing lights would be nice. Between Somerset and Pretoria there is not a single place to cross safely at peak times. There should be.Ottawa bike guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15365339487504777098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-49242628029863375492011-11-07T23:00:07.459-05:002011-11-07T23:00:07.459-05:00The solution isn't to help people go up the hi...The solution isn't to help people go up the hill, it is to connect Hintonburg to the O-Train and Transitway by going under the Scott overpass, thus saving the pedestrians from having to walk on the bridge in the first place. People also run across the traffic to get to the O-Train/Transit stop. Add a direct route the O-Train stops would make public transit more accessible to Hintonburg. The bridge isn't the nicest place in the winter with the speeding cars and small sidewalks...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-67863681473016259162011-11-07T18:20:36.619-05:002011-11-07T18:20:36.619-05:00Diane Holmes posits the following example:
Locati...Diane Holmes posits the following example:<br /><br /><i>Location-specific chronic problems in any part of the city (e.g. the light at the end of my street takes a long time to change after I press the crosswalk button)</i><br /><br />Better question: Why do so many streets and intersections demand a button-push from pedestrians in the first place?<br /><br />Drivers don't have to push buttons. Why do pedestrians? Rather than having buttons that work better, why not have NO BUTTON AT ALL?<br /><br />Why don't pedestrians get a walk light, as of right, when traffic moving in the same direction gets a green?<br /><br />And why is the city replacing more and more as-of-right signals with pedestrians-must-beg-and-hope-the-button-isn't-broken ones?<br /><br />It is expensive to the city, time-wasteful to pedestrians, even dangerous (only encourages jaywalking), and contrary to the official plan.<br /><br />And yet it continues unquestioned and unabated.WJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08070910923518931583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2014451593167123858.post-44801767366704761362011-11-07T12:34:27.662-05:002011-11-07T12:34:27.662-05:00Well, at least those signs will provide good solid...Well, at least those signs will provide good solid anchoring to attach the next pull rope to.Patrick Dennyhttp://atomicnoggin.canoreply@blogger.com