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   If I Was Mayor of Saskatoon - Part One - By Daryl S. Kabatoff    
   March 14th 2020 AD 6:40 pm 27,608 words   
      
   Contents:   
   Aviation, Boating, TIG Welding   
   Banking, Wealth Management   
   Diamonds, Gold and Money   
   Female Fashion Trends   
   Largest Building in Saskatchewan   
   British, German and Russian History   
   High School Students, Hockey Players   
   Gun Laws, Native Governance   
   Restaurants and Fine Dining   
   Appeasement and Being Nice   
   Blinkin’ Lights   
   Religion and Humor   
      
      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   
   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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