Road traffic in the new Transit City?

Why widen traffic corridors to allow for the proposed 7m LRT ROW? Just adapt the existing road condition.

It seems that Transit City seems to confuse transit construction with the accommodation (or increase) for road capacity. This seems to defeat the purpose of the whole process. Creating a ROW that is 36m wide to accommodate traffic flow with transit does not create a liveable community centre public realm. However, it does follow the suburban model of smooth traffic flow, wide corridors, large turning radius, and bleak spaces.

Unfortunately the new concepts and approaches seem to doom suburban models of built form - to be just that, a relic of a traffic engineered route. If we want to condone the use of transit we should at least think outside our North American concern for car accommodation and create innovative approaches to transit use and construction.

Widening roads is not the answer.