By Staff
September 10, 2016
BURLINGTON, ON
Is this coming to Burlington?
The Halton Regional Police has received numerous traffic complaints related to the volume of traffic that blocks two heavily travelled intersections in the Town of Oakville; Trafalgar Road and Cornwall Road and Trafalgar Road and Cross Avenue.
In response to this traffic dilemma, the Oakville District Response Team has created Project Bottleneck.
Over the past three days, traffic officers focused on those drivers who imped the flow of opposing traffic by entering the intersection when it is not clear. Over 40 tickets were issued to drivers who failed to keep the intersection clear, not yielding to traffic or stopping at a red light.
“It is the Halton Regional Police Service’s goal to make Halton a safe driving community,” said Sgt. Gus Bistas.
Halton Regional Police would like to remind drivers of the importance of following the rules of the road. When approaching a traffic controlled intersection, please be patient and do not move forward until the vehicles in front of you have fully cleared the intersection.
Any discussion on impeding traffic flow and bottlenecks shouldn’t be separated from a discussion around improvements to road design, traffic light coordination and synchronization and traffic patterns.
While I don’t condone impatient or erratic driving, frankly, a lot of this behaviour is a direct consequences of delays caused by poor road design, poor traffic planning, limited advance greens lights, a lack of advance green lights and increasing traffic congestion. Doug’s experiences noted above are typical of what motorists have to content with every day.
I’m sorry but another Task Force from Halton Regional Police isn’t going to solve this complex and multi-faceted problem long-term. There may be a temporary short-term improvement but in the long-term these measures won’t provide lasting benefits. Mayor Goldring promised improvements to traffic congestion and improvements to road design when first elected in 2010. Six years later we are all still waiting for relief. Mind you: we have a beautiful array of unused bike lanes which, I’m sure, we are all very grateful for (sic).
This is forgetting about Burlington.
Guelph Line at Fairview northbound
Traffic lined up from F light to Prospect and beyond. Only 4 cars got through. So lots of delay if you are the Prospect area car. This was 11:53 Friday
The thing that bothers me most is when did the law come in (for the anointed anyway) that after the light turns red the next 3 cars in line still make their intended left turn. If I remember the law corrected 1 car only in intersection (in Toronto you get ticketed if more than 1) and they could go on the amber light. I even see City buses caught up in this practice.
If the police want a cash cow, put red light cameras at Fairview/Maple and Lakeshore/Maple, they would reach their quota in an hour.
The City and Region co-ordination of construction projects or lack there of, plus the traffic road planners in this City causes even worse, 4 lane traffic reduced to 2 then back to 4 than back to 2 again.
Saw the bike lanes in action on the ribfest weekend, with heavy pedestrian traffic in the area we were forced to dodge adults on bicycles on the City sidewalks outside the park (there were no small children with them) while the bike lanes were empty.