Reading this a bit further, I should have also added this part of the article below. Interesting these transport engineers set these (imaginary?) targets but have no idea what the real measurements are right now.
"1 minute" during peak hours seems to be an unreasonable estimate for removing an entire lane of traffic to vehicles in the downtown. Things get massively backed up just with the loss of a lane over a short distance due to new tower construction or an illegally parked vehicle.
I assume they're going to be locking out these lanes during the winter as well?
While transportation engineers have proposed the target, they don’t know exactly what existing travel times are for those stretches. They’ll measure baseline data this fall and next May, and keep tracking throughout the one-year trial.
“How much more idling time?” asked Coun. Ward Sutherland, one of council’s sharpest critics of the downtown bike network trial.
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