https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...ving-1.7168981
I'm sure everyone's seen by now the ample reporting on the abominable design provided for the downtown slow tram.
Above all it's not quite astonishing that Salvador and Stevenson are each "qualified" urban planners who are equally surprised at the literal and figurative collision of train-car-bicycle-pedestrian pathways destined to dominate downtown traffic casualty statistics.
"These numbers are surprising," says Coun. Anne Stevenson, who represents Ward O-day'min, where the intersection is located.
No, they're not surprising.
Walk around downtown and Oliver for a few hours a day. Watch the confusion created by a patchwork of four-way stops, scramble intersections, construction obstacles, cyclists on the sidewalks, motorists hurrying through construction zones at unsafe speeds, random crosswalk barricades, and what have you. Does *anybody* on City Council or in the planning department live downtown?
I still get an askance chuckle when I ask random passersby what they think of a slow-rolling tramway straight down the middle of 104 Avenue. "You're an idiot if you think they'd ever do that," proclaimed one senior as she glared at me from behind the controls of a walker.
I simply shrugged and grinned like an idiot.