在拓宽16大街项目上，约克区政府不把受影响的人当回事，自作主张

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This is the second article on the subject of the widening of 16th Avenue in Markham. The previous article can be found here: http://chinesenewsgroup.com/news/668087

2019年12月，约克区议会通过了2020年33亿元的预算，包括增加预算1.7％来确保区政府的各项服务。预算将10年各类基建项目的投资增加到71亿元，比2019年增加5亿元。这将使14个与人口增长相关的关键道路项目能够加快建设。其中之一就是16大道的道路拓宽。

In December of 2019, York Regional Council approved a $3.3 billion budget for 2020. It includes an increase of 1.7% to maintain Regional services. The budget increased the 10-year capital plan to $7.1 billion, up $500 million over 2019. It will allow 14 key growth-related road projects to move ahead more quickly. One of these is the road widening of 16th Avenue.

2020年1月10日，负责道路拓宽问题的渔人村居民协会主席麦克.甘能写信给负责该项目的项目经理。甘能先生在信中代表渔人村居民协会提出了以下许多问题：

On January 10, 2020, Michael Gannon, the chair of URA Committee on Road Widenings wrote to the City's Project Manager in charge of the project. In the letter, Mr. Gannon questioned the City on behalf of the Unionville Residents Association on a number of issues.

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1、许多受道路拓宽工程影响的人没有被邀请参与该项目是否可行的咨询。2019年12月19日发布的项目环境评估报告称“政府下属机构和受项目影响的各方”参与了这份报告，但报告中根本没有提当地市议员们和居民团体是否参与这份报告。受项目影响的居民团体根本就没有参与这份报告。约克区12月19日决定加速注资10年基建项目的计划令许多居民吃惊。2020年 1月22日，万锦市召开会议，就约克区政府的新预算提出自己的看法。但区政府根本就没有理会，就将预算通过了。

1. Inadequate Stakeholder Engagement. The Environmental Assessment (EA) report published on December 19, 2019 includes list of "Agencies and Stakeholders", but makes no mention of ward councillors or resident groups. There was also no formal stakeholder group involving residents. The York Region decision on Dec 19th to accelerate the necessary funds into a 10-year capital plan, came as a big surprise to many residents. There was to be a meeting on January 22nd in Markham to respond York Region government's request for comments but the government went ahead without waiting for an answer from Markham.

2、道路拓宽工程的总体施工方案欠全盘考虑。该项目将把现有的16大道拓宽到6条行车线，没有考虑到污染和道路安全问题。北美许多其他社区不再使用道路加宽来解决交通堵塞问题，而是采用更好和车次更频繁的公车，让更少的车上路。另外，加宽道路会让更多的人改变交通习惯，转去开车，因此，道路虽然拓宽了，但因为更多的人改为开车，结果道路又开始堵塞。

2. Overall strategic Case not adequately constructed. The planned widening will create 6 lanes on the road causing more pollution and safety concerns. Many other communities in North America are no longer using widening as a congestion tool, instead of focusing on better and more frequent transit. There is also the matter of induced demand, where traveller behaviour changes after new road capacity is installed, so that the new capacity is very rapidly filled up again.

3、未考虑其他解决交通堵塞的可能性。用多乘员车道解决交通堵塞问题是被公认的解决办法。只要改进交叉路口的设计就可以减轻堵塞。只有花一点钱就可以实施这些改进措施，而不是花1.5亿进行道路扩宽。

3. Alternatives not considered. The preferred solution of additional High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes appears preselected and the report written to confirm this conclusion. Significant congestion benefits could be achieved by just improving intersections. The cost of those improvements will only be a fraction of the planned $150 million project.



考虑使用只有交车可以用的、可逆中心车道可以在交通高峰期提高运员流速。公交车将在非高峰期使用正常的车道。这会将所需的加宽道路车道从6条减少到5条。

Using a bus-only reversible centre lane could provide for speedy transit in the peak traffic direction. Buses would use general purpose lanes during non-peak direction. This would reduce the road widening needed from 6 to 5 lanes.

一般车道的宽度为3.3米，多乘员车道宽度一般为3.5米。但是，车道宽度可以分别减小到3.0 m和3.2 m，且不会造成安全隐患。减小车道宽度的好处包括让人们考虑除了开车以外的其他交通手段，可以方便行人过马路，减少对邻里的噪音和振动，减少如路盐对环境的污染，雨水的排泄，更低的建造和维护成本。

The assumed lane widths are 3.3 metres for a general purpose lane and 3.5 metres for a HOV lane. However, lane widths can be reduced to 3.0 m and 3.2 m respectively and deemed to be safe. Would reduced lane widths not provide benefits such as more room for active transportation options, easier crossings for pedestrians, less disruption to neighbourhood in terms of noise and vibration, less environmental issues (salt, storm water management), less cost to construct and maintain?

市政开发服务委员会于2020年1月22日在万锦市政府举行会议。主题发言者是交通工程师洛克伍德先生。他的专长是鼓励人们去自己解决交通问题，市区改建和各个城市通过协作来规划、设计和建设城市。

A Special Development Services Committee meeting was held on Jan 22nd, 2020 at Markham's City Hall. The keynote speaker was Mr. Ian Lockwood, a transportation engineer who specializes in active transportation, downtown revitalization, and helping cities through collaborative planning, design and engineering.



洛克伍德先生主持过各种各样的交通项目。这些项目旨在让人们多走路，骑自行车和公交便利。他还曾担任美国西棕榈滩市的城市交通规划师。在那里，他改变了城市的主干道，城市道路以及该市的停车方式，从而改变了该市糟糕的交通情况，让其成为一个在经济和社会上成功的城市。

Mr. Lockwood led a wide variety of transportation projects aimed at making communities more walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly. He also served as the City Transportation Planner for City of West Palm Beach, USA, where he transformed state arterial roads, local roads, and the city’s approach to parking to help the city overcome its blighted condition and evolve into an economically and socially successful city.

洛克伍德先生目前的工作包括鼓励人们步行的项目，将单向行车街道恢复为两向，疏通主要交通干道，增加共享空间，政策改革，设计主要街道，校园和市区。

Mr. Lockwood’s current work includes walkability projects, restoring one-way streets to two-way, taming arterials, shared spaces, policy reform, and designing main streets, campuses, and downtowns.



在整个演讲过程中，他把重点放在他是如何将拥挤的城市街道转变方便步行和骑行的经验，以及如何通过交通分流的方式缓解交通繁忙的地段。他的理论不复杂：即不要拓宽道路来增加车道，因为道路拓宽后马上就有更多的车上路，结果又恢复到道路没有拓宽前的老样子。

Throughout his presentation, he focused on his accomplished solutions to transform congested city streets into walkable and bikeable paths and relieving traffic by redirecting them into other arterial roads surrounding the most heavily travelled hot spots. His one theory is concise – do not expand more lanes as they will be used up as soon as they are built.

在介绍和讨论之后，万锦市工程总监指出，市府工作人员将根据会议内容在下一次的市政开发服务委员会的会议上提交一份建议报告。万锦市居民将不得不再次等待这个报告，并用这个报告改变约克区政府已经决定的道路拓宽计划。虽然前途漆黑，但我们还是看到可以改变约克区政府决定的一丝可能性。

After the presentation and discussions, the Director of Engineering for Markham advised that a staff recommendation report giving due consideration to the discussions from the meeting will be presented at a future Development Services Committee meeting. Markham residents will have to wait for that day to once again push for changes to the proposed plan. At least, there is now some light at the end of the dark tunnel.