“So, the dumbass roundabout on old Topsail Road.
it’s the stupidest, most unexplainable use of tax-paying money.
In 2012, they spent sixty grand on putting it there, and now they’re
going to just tear it up because it was a decidely dumb idea?
Is there any better proof of how dumb and incompetent
our “leaders” are? How did this thing get approved, anyway?
Is this why meter rates are so expensive downtown now?
To cover the cost of stupid city council decisions?” – Tax Payin’ Madwoman
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Well, in my view, the problem could be solved if council decides to not spend $60k to remove the roundabout. What’s the big deal? Why this sudden pressing need to have it removed when most of our roads need repainting – from scratch, as someone in The Telegram noted a while back?
I don’t disagree with slowing the skeets down … I disagree with council spending 60 grand on something, then undoing it. speedbumps or traffic lights, not a roundabout, as soon as you turn on the street, as opposed to in the middle, is weird.
Old Topsail Road is a purely residential street and is narrow in most places. Hidden driveways in some areas.
It had the added burden of being a shortcut for drivers heading Downtown on Topsail and vice versa. Speeds greater than 50-60 on that road are dangerous and it’s well known that speeds in the range of 70-80 were not uncommon. People regularly treated it as a major arterial road.
I took a drive up Old Topsail on Friday, and the traffic calming is having its intended effect of forcing people to drive safe speeds. This invariably protects lives and property from reckless drivers. The only problems that I can see are the few commuters and skeets who have been inconvenienced by the loss of their favourite shortcut to George Street.
The mess they made of Old Topsail was inexplicable when it was happening, and I still don’t see the point. Was speeding really that big a problem there? I never experienced it. That was a dumb place for a roundabout, in any case.
To Little R, no, there should not be more ghost cars. Ghost cars don’t make people slow down, because people don’t know they are there. MARKED CARS are more of a deterrent.
Hardly a bad idea at all. It serves its original, intended purpose: slowing down traffic on Old Topsail Road. Why should it be ripped up when a few uneducated individuals do not know how to use a roundabout?
Instead, it will become another three-way stop that skeets in pick-ups will blow through. I believe there should be more roundabouts, speed bumps, and the like on our residential roads. The RNC and RCMP need to pitch in as well: there should be more ghost cars monitoring our roads to nab speeders.