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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a nutty and ignorant  thread.

The city hasn't even finished implementing the road diet or tweaking the traffic signals to make all of this work.

The road wasn't reduced from 4 to 2 lanes.  In most stretches of the road it has always effectively been 1 lane moving in each direction because of cars queued up to make left turns and there is now a dedicated left turn lane so once everyone figures out the new traffic pattern it is likely to be a wash.

Yes in some sections of the road between intersections you won't be driving as fast because traffic will be confined to one lane.

But around the intersections the roads carrying capacity will be about the same as before.

The carrying capacity of a road is determined not by the top speed but by the average speed and the average speed isn't likely to budge much and during the AM and PM rush hour it has always been a bit low and the rest of the day Seminary has way more capacity than needed.

And I love the comments about no one seeing bikers on a project that is not even completed yet - did you expect some magical pied bicycle piper was going to lead all the cyclists out onto the road on the first cold week of the year?  It will take time before people are aware the bike lanes are even there and change their habits to use them.

This type of road diet is actually pretty common and has worked well elsewhere including in our region and it works because it really doesn't reduce the roads carrying capacity very much.

But expecting anxious drivers around here who can't zoom around as quickly as they want to in their imported SUV's to be patient is obviously too much.[/quote]

I am pretty sure the bikers that you are waiting for are the same much ones that ride on King St bike lanes. So that would be 3 or 4 at most - on the weekends only of course  :D [/quote]

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