Plans to twin the 101- action needed!

Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:28:34 -0400
From: "Marcus Garnet" <garnetm@region.halifax.ns.ca>
To: <sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca>, <jslakov@TartanNET.ns.ca>
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A good place to start would be to call for "Zero Tolerance" of agressive
driving on all our roads in Nova Scotia.  I suspect that in many cases, it
is careless or impatient decisions to overtake on two-way roads that lead
to head-on collisions (and two-way roads will always exist in this
province even after the 101 is twinned).  Photo-radar would give an
immediate life-saving benefit, rather than letting more people die while
the government saves up enough to twin the highway.  As a planner and a
transit advocate I'm not categorically opposed to some strategic highway
twinning where it makes sense (and there may be a good safety argument in
some places), but a knee-jerk reaction to plan all our roads around the
agressive driver is hardly good stewardship! 

- Marcus Garnet, HRM Planning & Development

>>> Jan Slakov <jslakov@TartanNET.ns.ca> 02/16 12:42 PM >>>
Dear Sustainable Maritimes people,            

Just recently I got a letter from Ron Russell, NS Minister of Transportation
& Public Works in reply to one I had written. Minister Russell informs me
that as soon as his Department gets money, they will get to work twinning
the 101. Bad news for greenhouse gas emissions and even for safety concerns!

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