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Originally Posted by bigguy1231
You didn't have to live near a main arterial road. It's a big city with lots of places to live.
I was on Main Street earlier this week mid afternoon and I never got over 40kph. It was stop and go right through downtown.
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Most cities' cores do not feature fast arterial roads with minimum-width sidewalks directly adjacent to the roadway, and slip lanes between streets downtown. In Hamilton, it seems like you have a choice between living near downtown in relative proximity to jobs and amenities, but with very uncomfortable walks along poorly-designed arterial roads to get there, or in suburban neighbourhoods where walking around is less unpleasant, but there's nowhere to walk to.
I don't know what to tell you about the fact that you experienced stop-and-go traffic on Main Street. Sometimes there is some traffic; other times cars race down it. All the time, it's a five-lane one-way with no buffer between car traffic and the sidewalk.