City plans to narrow lanes on downtown streets

The City staff has concluded that many of our main roads have lanes that are too wide. Over a period time, therefore, some downtown lanes are going to be made narrower. The expectation is that it will make drivers slow down. Stephen Buckley, general manager of transportation services is quoted as saying that when lanes are too wide there is no place for bike lanes and it takes pedestrians longer to cross streets. What is missing in reports is the actual  measurements. Curious citizens might like to go out and stretch a tape across their own street. Anyway, Mr. Buckley says the objective is to get vehicles traveling (starting downtown) at a continuous 30 to 40 kilometres an hour. He feels this steady as-you-go approach would make drivers ecstatic. The narrowing will be done by in some cases by adding bike lanes. In other cases, sidewalks would be widened thus narrowing the street. On South Bayview Ave. we have among the widest sidewalks in the city. Most people seem to love the two-lane nature of Bayview between Davisville and Parkhurst/Soudan.  

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