Why hasn’t a median been put in place on Highway 6?
Posted Jul 22, 2019 07:30:00 PM.
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It's called a highway, but aside from high-speed limits it has little in common with a real highway, that's according to Dr. Bruce Hellinga a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
It has more visibility than your common road, but when compared to the 400 series it still has lots of blind spots further exacerbated by residential driveways along Highway 6.
Hellinga says that a median would absolutely reduce collisions, specifically head-on ones that are incredibly dangerous.
That was demonstrated last week, when a driver crossed the median of Highway 6 South, resulting in a head-on collision that claimed the life of a 38-year-old Cambridge woman.
While a median would reduce this, Hellinga says it isn't that simple.
“It has been demonstrated that something needs to be done on Highway 7 and 6, but governments need to make priorities and it appears to me that those changes aren't at the top of the list.”
He also says that medians create problems for people who live along those roads as they restrict the ability to cross over lanes when exiting driveways.
