Traffic solutions don’t make sense: reader

January 28, 2015 · 0 Comments

I have read the article in this Thursday’s edition.
The solutions offered by Mayor Dawe and Councillor Mrakas on their own do not make much sense. These ideas will only make matters and the traffic a lot worse.
The traffic volume is there and it will only increase since the population in Aurora and Newmarket is still increasing. So, restrictions on their own will not help.
A possible solution could be to make Industrial Parkway a four lane road from Yonge Street in the south to St. John’s Sideroad in the north.
The idea would be to divert the through traffic around the historic part of Aurora on to the combination Industrial Parkway/St. John’s Sideroad, leading back to Yonge Street again.
Once this solution is in place, the Mayor’s idea of restricting Yonge Street could work, as a matter of fact it would aid to get the traffic flow over to the alternate route.
Another option would be to make Yonge Street a one-way street southbound from St. John’s Side Road to Industrial Parkway and Industrial Parkway a one-way road northbound.
It may be worthwhile looking at the situation on a larger scale rather than just focus onto the Yonge/Wellington intersection.

Horst Wizemann
Aurora