Comments on: Spencer Drive

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:11:47 +0000

Everyday I leave work and proceed to the Peter Pan intersection. Waiting at the lights I always see tourists going straight into the parking lot at the Mall and turning around. Immediately I know that they didn’t make a turn. Now, that can be blamed on this one thing. On Capital Drive there is a 2′x 2′ sign indicating where University Ave/City Centre is. It is easily missed and rarely is the right-hand lane recognized by them that this is the road to the city. Hence the mulptple turns in the Mall parking lot.
There needs to be a large overhead sign indicating Route #2 and the city centre. Otherwise you will still have people coming across Spencer to Mt. Edward (when they decide to extend it) turning around because they are lost or missed a turn. This city is way behind the times for proper signage. Lately though there has been an initiative to correct this. But it is not entirely completed. First the access to the bypass on the Causeway has six signs. Who has time to read six signs when one will do overhead. Then there needs to be a sign before the Peter Pan corner.
Extending Spencer is a no brainer, but lets resolve a bigger issue in moving traffic to it’s proper location instead of this mess we have now.

By: Councillor Rob Lantz

Councillor Rob Lantz — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:14:58 +0000

Despite a very large volume of people visiting to read this post, most of the commentary was on Twitter and it was overwhelmingly (I believe unanimously) positive. I think it should be a priority for the city, but it’s an expensive project and complicated to acquire all the land. And that’s only if we can get a consensus on council to pursue the project. Next year is an election year. Having never served on council during an election year, I have no idea what that will mean in terms of what priorities bubble to the surface.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:51:42 +0000

Since the realignment of the Peter Pan intersection Spencer drive is a literal tourist trap. Take a look at the end of Spencer drive any day of the summer and you’ll see vehicles that have driven straight from the bridge to a dead end.

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:42:06 +0000

Please do it!
The City has already messed up another potential cross-town route, from Exhibition Drive, through Beazley through Allen, through Kirkwood, by allowing a new seniors complex to be built on Kensington Road across from the end of Exhibition, rather than aligning Exhibition and Beazley and putting in a light to get across Kensington. Also, the roundabout won’t help that route, either!

The route I used to take, Park to Belmont to Mt. Edward to the Ag farm private road (Ravenwood) to University Av. to Belvedere was ruined by a realignment on Park, and the closing of the private road to through traffic.
Going across town by any route that uses Belvedere corner is a non-starter, as the lights take forever.
The only other possibility is Garfield/Palmers Lane/Mt. Edward, and Belvedere, but it’s a tad on the twisty side.
For those of us who work (and shop) in West Royalty, and live in Stratford, extending Spencer would be a godsend!