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That lasted a week before the claxon of anger and recrimination by motorists delayed in their trip by a matter of minutes forced the city to change things back, and when you consider this, it’s even more weird that there are people on council that think local drivers would accept a 30 kilometres per hour speed limit. In other words, there’s no point in changing things because people will do what they do behind the wheel, and what they do is stay preternaturally focused on their own need to get to where they’re going as fast as they can, in the shortest distance they can.Ĭonsider last spring when the City announced that they were changing all crosswalks in Guelph so that the walk signal would come up automatically because more people were out walking and pressing the walk signal button was a communal experience best avoided. “Yes, you have those curbs and turns, they might slow things down, but as people get used to it, the speed will go right back up again.” Before, I saw cars and trucks coming down there at an immense speed,” the petition’s originator, Ray Stultz, told the Guelph Mercury Tribune. “I understand that we’re trying to make it slower. In a petition started on, area residents began complaining about the congestion caused by people navigating Downey’s unusual renovation, and that the road had somehow become even more of a hazard and a danger. The result was the installation of raised intersections, speed cushions and speed bumps-outs, and the reaction was instantaneously negative.

You see, people had a visceral negative reaction to the usual options like red lights, stop signs, and speed bumps, and that necessitated some creativity in road design. In 2014, the city launched an effort to reduce speeds on Downey Road with some innovative road design.

The question is can we force changes to driving behavior by changing speed limits and improved safety measures? Traffic has been top of mind this week, both in the community and around the council horseshoe. Now, we live in a free society, and if you want to stuff fries in your face, have at thee, but what you’re not entitled to do is running over some poor cyclist in order to get in line to buy those fries. The invention of the drive thru plays into all of our worst tendencies as a people: it’s consumeristic, it’s elitist, it’s lazy, and the slow moving line of idling cars does nothing for an environment teetering on the brink of collapse. If the human race is lucky enough to make it to the other side of the year 2100, we might look back and say that human civilization teetered on the edge of oblivion because of the drive thru.