Narrowing the lane is fine, I guess. But this street of very expensive houses, Clemow, has been aggressively chopped up with no-entry signs and other means so as to effectively remove it from a perfectly good grid and turn it into a bunch of cul-de-sacs in the middle of the city.
Narrowing the lane is fine, I guess. But this street of very expensive houses, Clemow, has been aggressively chopped up with no-entry signs and other means so as to effectively remove it from a perfectly good grid and turn it into a bunch of cul-de-sacs in the middle of the city.
The above image is at Clemow and Bank. This is Clemow and Bronson—same treatment, where if you live on Clemow it’s convenient to get out, but nobody is allowed to use the street as a thoroughfare.
That’s because halfway to O’Connor, you run into this. Many years ago, the residents got the planters put in as an experiment in traffic reduction. Then they got the street permanently closed. It’s legally parkland now, despite appearances.
Again—narrowing, road diet, making high speeds less convenient, all OK if you ask me. But that this has all been done on ONE street says more about class and who matters at city hall than about urban design.
@davidreevely If I recall, it was a former Chair of the NCC who got this done (a long time ago). He happened to live in the street. I found those two factoids in an Ottawa history book that I can probably find again