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   If I Was Mayor of Saskatoon - Part One - By Daryl Kabatoff    
   March 9th 2020 AD 7:00 pm 26,391 words    
      
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   If I was mayor of the City of Saskatoon I’d end of the money grab of the 30   
   km/hour school zones. The schools should post reduced speeds but with   
   illuminated, blinkin’ and more frequent signage. There should be no fine   
   print on traffic speed signs,    
   it is unreasonable for drivers to slow down to read fine print on street   
   signs, then check the date and time of day to see if the information conveyed   
   applies to them. There should be no reduced speeds in school zones when the   
   students are inside the    
   schools, so at the start of classes the speeds on the illuminated and   
   blinkin’ signs should return to 50 km/hour and cease blinkin’. The speed   
   should only be reduced to 30 km/hour for 30 minutes before the start of   
   classes, during the lunch hour, and    
   for 30 minutes at the end of the school day.   
      
   An end to reduced speed limits near high schools, for the high school students   
   should have learned how to cross streets before graduating from grade 8. High   
   school students who impede traffic by recklessly crossing streets should face   
   fines to help pay    
   for the cost of the new brightly blinkin’ 30 km/hour primary school zone   
   signs (and to reduce home and business taxes). Instead of 30 km/hour zones for   
   the high schools, give the high school students crosswalks where they may push   
   a button and get    
   traffic to either slow down or stop. People like blinkin’ lights, give the   
   high school students a few blinkin’ lights that are activated by pushing a   
   blinkin’ button.   
      
      
   Reimburse the money of the ticketed drivers who were fined for exceeding the   
   poorly marked 30 km/hour school zone limits. Drivers who were ticketed in   
   these zones for speeds up to and including 55 km/hour should have their fines   
   cancelled and money    
   returned. This reimbursement should be funded by ticketing drivers who are in   
   violation of traffic laws. Enforcing the fines for unattached trailers left on   
   streets will go a long way in raising money to reimburse the drivers who were   
   ticketed in the    
   school-zone money grabs. The poorly made and poorly placed signage has   
   resulted in not just traffic fines, but in increased insurance rates, together   
   these increased costs resulted in the loss of mobility to some citizens - City   
   Council should work to    
   refund all these losses incurred by their negligence.   
      
   Increased the number of speed limit signs. Some 60 km/hour zones are so poorly   
   posted that drivers have not seen the existing one or two signs and instead   
   travel at slower or faster speeds. Signs indicating speed limits should be   
   posted regularly along    
   streets and freeways, on every second or third light pole or power pole.   
   Several of the 50 km/hour zones can be increased to 60 km/hour, and several 60   
   km/hour zones should be increased to 70 or 80 km/hour. There is a small 90   
   km/hour section on Circle    
   Drive that should be reduced to 70 or 80 km/hour.   
      
   Improved traffic flow by increasing speeds on Chief Mistawasis Bridge and on   
   the roadways leading to and from this bridge. Improved traffic flow by   
   connecting Clancy drive to 18th Street, passing beneath Circle Drive as this   
   will alleviate the congestion    
   on 22nd Street and Circle Drive. Improved traffic flow by widening sections of   
   Circle Drive so that merging onto this freeway will become far less dangerous.   
   Taylor Street should be moving four lanes of traffic at a consistent 50   
   km/hour, if a high    
   school insists upon lower speeds during school hours, then get your blinkin’   
   signs and your blinkin’ lights to communicate the lower speeds in a clear   
   and in an unambiguous manner. Put some study into alleviating congestion on   
   Circle Drive between    
   Avenue C and Millar Avenue. An overpass at Highway 12 and Marquis Drive is   
   required but should be delayed due to mismanagement of city finances, and when   
   it does finally get built it should have enough clearance to allow farmers to   
   transport their grain    
   bins.   
      
   Improved traffic flow by re-routing the Yellowhead Highway to either one or   
   two miles west of Dalmeny Road, and connecting to the existing Gordie Howe   
   Bridge via a new road located between Cedar Villa Estates and the CN rail   
   yard. This would be hundreds    
   of millions of dollars cheaper than building a proposed bypass on the far east   
   side of the city; furthermore having traffic totally bypassing the city will   
   negatively affect local businesses and result in an additional hundreds of   
   millions of dollars of    
   lost revenue. If the provincial and federal governments desire to fund a   
   bypass, then utilize Grasswoods Road and a new Grasswoods Bridge and have CPR   
   locate their new bridge there as well. It would be in error to get   
   Saskatoonians to pay for a traffic    
   bypass for it would negatively impact businesses for decades to come, as was   
   done in Regina.   
      
   Improve the traffic flow on Idylwyld Drive by widening the street to 6 or 8   
   lanes and perhaps give the buildings lining the street a European style   
   similar to, matching or blending into the style of the Bessborough Hotel or   
   the old Eaton’s building on    
   3rd Avenue South. Beautifying the city will improve the lives of the   
   merchants, the residents and the visitors. We should study the issue of   
   somewhat similarly improving 20th Street West.   
      
   Reduced property taxes via the enforcement of existing traffic laws. Ticket   
   drivers who hang any obstacles to vision, such as dream catchers, on their   
   rear-view mirrors. Ticket the drivers who debadge their vehicles and obscure   
   their license plates.    
   Ticket the drivers who tint their front windows. Ticket drivers who fail to   
   come to a complete stop at red lights and stop signs. Ticket the owners of the   
   unattached trailers left on the streets.   
      
   Removal of red-light cameras, it is a cash grab that largely benefits those   
   who own the cameras.   
      
   End to dedicated bike lanes, instead seek to improve road surfaces where   
   bicycles are numerous. Most bicyclists in Saskatoon don’t want bicycles and   
   bike lanes, they instead want automobiles and their own houses.   
      
      
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