CityPlaceN1
Senior Member
If they're going through all this effort to reconstruct Front St with a median,
I'm hearing they are also looking at Front East from Jarvis to Parliament for reconstruction including a median.
If they're going through all this effort to reconstruct Front St with a median,
I just can't fathom how whether a street is one- or two-way makes any difference to pedestrians. If the road is very wide or traffic moves very quickly, it makes perfect sense, but what does it matter what direction the cars are going? This seems like one of those things that people have said so many times that it becomes a fact without anybody actually taking a serious look at it. I walk across Richmond and Adelaide all the time and they've never felt any harder to cross than Queen or King. If anything, jaywalking is a little easier because the cars are only going in one direction. I could definitely support widening the sidewalks on Richmond and Adelaide, but they're going to have to make a better case for converting them into two-way.
Anyone who thinks that one-way streets kill pedestrian life should take a trip to Montreal.
Yup, or for that matter, every major shopping street in Manhattan, Boston, Hong Kong, Tokyo, etc.By the way, if one way streets are such pedestrian nightmares, then these must be some of the most hostile and forbidding environments for a pedestrian unlucky enough to stray into the vicinity of:
Rue Ste. Catherine (Montreal)
Boulevard St. Germain (Paris)
Boulevard St. Martin (Paris)
Broadway (New York)
Shaftesbury Ave. and Picadilly Ave. (London)
New Bond St. (London)
Richmond and Adelaide should install contra-flow bike lanes instead
I don't tend to drive in downtown in the heart of rush-hour often, but when I have, Adelaide and Richmond between University and Bathurst don't seem that full. It's between University and the Don River where they are well used. So I can see why making them 2-way east of University would help traffic flow, reducing all the running around the block, particularly on Bathurst.Westbound on Richmond and eastbound on Adelaide seems like a pretty rational way to facilitate traffic. I can't see how changing this would improve traffic flow.
Yes. That's what they've announced with all this ... thought I read it in the Globe (the paper copy), but here it is on City's site - http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35385.aspx "Part of the plan includes changing Richmond and Adelaide Sts. to two-way streets from Bathurst to University."Do you mean making it 2-way west of University?
Yes. That's what they've announced with all this ... thought I read it in the Globe (the paper copy), but here it is on City's site - http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35385.aspx "Part of the plan includes changing Richmond and Adelaide Sts. to two-way streets from Bathurst to University."