Mayor asks for traffic solution other than widening Bayers Road

Our local politicians will soon start thinking more seriously about how to handle worsening traffic congestion on the Bayers Road-102 corridor, and one of the options staff is presenting involves widening the road to add more lanes.

That would end up destroying some properties and altering others.

Before it even gets to council, the mayor is speaking out about it, and Peter Kelly is clearly looking for another way.

Kelly says we should be exploring alternative ways to smooth traffic flow, ones which won’t involve the destruction of up to 80 private properties or end up costing taxpayers more than $20 million.

“Rather than just say, well, the best, the fastest, the quickest way is to just buy, destroy and build,” said Kelly. “That is an antiquated approach. It’s one the taxpayers no longer buy.”

A study recommends making Bayers Road six lanes in some spots. The mayor suggests a reversing lane instead, going one way in the morning, the other in the PM, and banning ban left turns and cross traffic.

“I think we have to act and think differently,” said Kelly.

The traffic study goes to council’s Committee of the Whole next month.

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