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While the Quay to the City gave us a taste of what the revitalized Central Waterfront will be like, it also served another important function: it gave engineers a chance to see how the changes affected the flow of pedestrians, cyclists, streetcars, and car traffic.
The designers’ website has a series of time-lapsed videos showing how they fared. It looks pretty smooth, and makes me miss the changes already…
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Don’t know if this is old news or not…..
The Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corp has a feedback survey. I don’t know what effect this will have on the chances of making the Queen’s Quay bike lanes permanent, but it can’t hurt. It also lets you comment on specific aspects of the project.
http://www.towaterfront.ca/survey.php
In a letter to the editor in today’s Star, a reader complained that Torontonians are ignoring the traffic problems that this plan causes. Which is, of course, the whole point. We must find ways of making cars, people, and transit co-exist effectively and progressively; not bend over backwards to accomodate drivers who don’t like waiting in traffic or who complain about having to drive around the block because they can’t turn left.
On a side note to drivers of Toronto: a one way street does not mean driving the opposite way in reverse is OK. The car may be facing the right way, but it’s still traveling against the traffic, you idiots. Last week I watched someone back up on a one way section of Mutual Street from Carlton to Maitland, and another driver the next day on Alexander reverse from Church to Yonge (almost hitting a rollerblader). They know it’s wrong, but it’s the fact that they don’t care that’s so offensive.
Now that’s a Red Rocket!
Of course it looked smooth…Westbound traffic on Q.Q. shouldn’t be impacted adversely by the closure of Eastbound lanes.
Now if the camera had been watching Lakeshore Blvd. Eastbound you may have seen something entirely different.
So what if cars are having problems on QQ. It is not as if there are not amillion other safe routes in the city to drive. Only the opposite can be said for cycling. Cars make traffic, not the other way around.