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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Can we talk about the neighbour 3 doors to the east? What in the mother of sweet #### is that 'corner' lot? A publicly owned and maintained private cul-da-sac because they couldn't come up with another solution for the laneway? Does Elbow Drive's totally only in the name of safety super duper special speed limit* also make it impossible to have a laneway intersect with the road like it does in hundreds of other places in the city with higher speed limits?
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As someone who drives that intersection often, it's actually one of the few reasonable "traffic calming" measures the City put in ~20 years ago. That intersection used to be a ####-show. The cul-de-sac was previously a one-way from southbound Elbow to westbound Sifton. That corner house's driveway and the alley connected to this one-way link, and you could not see incoming traffic. The whole thing was kind of screwy because it was a turnaround loop for the streetcars way back in the day.