Our Edmonton STREETS

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People often point to Jasper and Whyte as unfortunate cases where planners and transportation engineers designed a street focused solely for the automobile. And indeed, the streetscapes, especially around Oliver’s Jasper Avenue, can be car-oriented with its limited pedestrian crossings, wide turning radii, fronting parking lots, and high speed traffic. However, it would be incorrect to assume that the road width of these seven lane arteries were a direct result of poor planning. The widths were already determined during the aggressive settlement of the West, long before the car became commonplace in Canadian cities.