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Originally Posted by thebasketballgeek
I just hope at some point we look at the commercial streets with a semblance of urban fabric. Having streets such as Osborne, Broadway, or Selkirk be 30 zones would do wonders for the vitality of those streetscapes and surrounding context. Really the whole Downtown should reduce speed limits.
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Reducing speeds on 100% residential streets that should never handle through traffic, like the grid neighborhoods in the north end, west k, east k, elmwood, etc could be workable.
Reducing the speeds on anything classified a Priority 1 or 2 by the city is a dumb idea and would cripple the city. That obviously includes Osborne, Broadway and Selkirk, among others, that are likely P1.
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Speaking of street classification, we desperately need someone willing to open up the snow clearing policy and give it a serious overhaul. I am not talking about necessarily spending more on snow but giving it a solid view as it has so many mixed messages. For example you can have a sole access road in a residential neighborhood acting as the collector for 100+ homes and have it classified as the same as a residential street with 10 or fewer homes in terms of a snow clearing priority. And there is the whole issue how lots of the City has moved to front side collection yet the snow clearing policy has specific clauses to consider collection activities that don't automatically apply there. So many things that could be changed there, not so much to really change service up but to better reflect what is happening here and in other similar cities.