By Jonathan McLeod, Ottawa Citizen, July 19, 2015
People are dying on our roads. A few years ago, the city introduced the concept
of Complete Streets, a concept that, once implemented, should reduce needless
deaths. But people keep dying, including two in the last three weeks. It is time
for the city’s actions to match its rhetoric. It is time to make Complete
Streets the default method for designing our roads. Complete Streets is a
simple, elegant concept. Streets should be designed to balance the needs of all
users, with an emphasis placed on the most vulnerable users. This means that we
concern ourselves with pedestrian safety first, bicyclists second, followed by
transit and cars.
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