CAMBRIDGE ROUNDABOUT PLAN TOO AMBITIOUS

Today's Waterloo Region Record suggests that twelve roundabouts at once along Franklin Blvd. is overdoing it. Today's article is titled "Cambridge Councillor to take on Region over roundabout plan". Cambridge Councillor Nicholas Ermeta is the one who seems to have run out of pateince with the Region. He wonders why three couldn't be built and then study the results. What is of interest is their safety and effectiveness at moving traffic.

Nicholas and other Cambridge Councillors have a point that Cambridge has been on the receiving end of a lot of experiments and decisions courtesy of the Region. This includes rapid transit buses versus light rapid transit trains etc.. This roundabout plan certainly seems to be putting Cambridge into the status of guinea pigs. It seems that not just private citizens but also municipal politicians are running out of patience with the Region always wanting to be ahead of the pack in allegedly innovative plans and directions.