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Originally Posted by trueviking
I’ve been going through the Dillon report to get a true handle on the traffic numbers.
The design that was chosen is interesting.
The two highest volume routes, Main Street northbound and southbound through the intersection, in both morning and afternoon rush hour, actually see no effect, or even a slight decrease, because the right turn to Portage East is eliminated. This represents 50% of the vehicles travelling through the intersection during rush hour.
The overall average vehicle delay through downtown (not just the intersection itself) is projected to be 50 seconds in the afternoon rush hour and 30 seconds in the morning rush hour.
All this hub bub for that!
The reason busses were so heavily impacted is because they measured person hours lost to the delay. So if there is an average of 20 people on a bus and the route it takes is delayed by 1 minute, they consider that a 20 minute delay. So the busses are not actually any more affected than cars, there is just a lot more people on a bus. It is still an oddity to include things like bus driver salaries in the cost of the project.
There is also an interesting chart showing the existing travel times for pedestrians and people in wheelchairs. It takes between 7 and 9 minutes for someone in a wheelchair to cross the street currently, assuming it is open.
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Only reason to calculate that in person-minutes would be to exaggerate a point. That's an absurd metric, this isn't a labour estimate.
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Originally Posted by bomberjet
Gasp. less than 1 minute.
Instead of calling for a referendum, City Hall should review and discuss the report.
Have they done this? At all?? Anyone know?
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Nope. The second it became a hot issue, all sensical talk at city hall stopped. Just been a political battle in the media and nothing else.