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Originally Posted by CoryB
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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Please explain why it is a dumb idea and “would cripple the city.” Because if that’s the case you’re essentially saying Downtown and all those collector streets should remain the traffic sewer they currently are just to accommodate the automobile in areas where they really shouldn’t be anyway. Even though Downtown has by far the most collisions with pedestrians and vehicles.
Toronto has already reduced their speed limit on collectors too 40 km/h. I just went to Amsterdam and Paris where all their streets are 30 km/h except for like 2/3 exceptions.
It does matter, it does make streets safer, and will make other modes of transportation more viable.
Of course if one of the main collector streets like Portage for example were to have lowered speed limits it would need to come with an effective redesign of the street first because our thoroughfares as is are designed to cut through the city at high speeds. Which is another reason why they are so dangerous and hostile to pedestrians.
These street designs would need to include features such as implementation of bike lanes, curb bump outs, trees, removal of slip lanes, potentially transit lanes etc.
But for streets with less ROW space like Osborne or Selkirk then even curb bump outs, bike lane, and a few street trees would do the trick.