The Leaside Community Facebook page is alive with traffic related posts Tuesday. It appears that Jason Prenger has started a counter-petition asking that the speed limit on the lower Bayview Extension be maintained at 50 km/h rather than restored to 60 km/h. In response to this Sharon Manley has commented that the new bicycle lanes on Bayview below Moore are not safe “with adjacent high speed traffic.” She says they are not separated by barriers and offer no protection from traffic. On a parking related note, Alison Ashamalia references a plan in Winnipeg to have diagonal or angled parking on some streets. Sharon Shirak Woynarski says this would be great for Bayview Ave. Maybe. It is easy to get into an angled parking space but very tricky to get out because a driver is quite blind to oncoming traffic from the right. Angled parking, which once existed on Bayview when Leaside was Leaside (if you catch our meaning) would also mean no parking on either side of the street during rush hour, a big minus. Leaside Community Petition to restore 60 km limit on Bayview south of Pottery
