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It sounds like a good news story; neighbourhoods scrambling to be next in line for for traffic-calming initiatives. However, communities should take a more critical look at what has happened in some neighbourhoods before clamouring to be next for the city initiative.
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I live in Old Strathcona and, in fact, after our neighbourhood had had some of these experimental traffic-calming measures implemented, the opposite occurred. Traffic has increased, speed has increased and streets that were once bucolic and slow-paced are now loud and dangerous.