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Originally Posted by TallDrinkofWater
It's funny - on one hand, the side thats for urban dev, argues for a street grid - but on the other hand comes in and starts arguing for "traffic calming" where such neighborhoods exist.
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Yeah, there's some irony here. I see a lot of calls for "fixing" 11th/12th Ave in terms of traffic calming. Gridded streets are exactly what cause this problem in the first place. Unless of course we make all streets so unfriendly to vehicles that traffic just crawls or entirely avoids them.
Calgary's residential areas don't have anywhere near the sheer amount of grid that I grew up with in Winnipeg, and boy howdy do people there ever scream for ever more traffic lights, speed humps, and other mechanisms. The streets end up unfriendly to both pedestrians AND vehicular traffic. A real lose-lose.
As much as I think we've gone waaaaaaay overboard with the whole cul-de-sac model, curvilinear design (and limited access neighbourhoods) originated as an attempt to make roads much more pedestrian friendly. It's funny now that some people think they're the least walkable.
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