One-way streets

More than 30 years ago I came for an interview in Hamilton. My future employer put me up at the Royal Connaught. I was left to my own devices the evening I arrived, and so I stepped out in search of a place to eat. I was bewildered. I was marooned on a beleaguered island, with a highway on one side and, when I did a 180, an even bigger highway on the other. I wasn’t surprised to find that there weren’t many eating options. Pedestrian unfriendly didn’t begin to describe it. Recent pedestrian deaths have dramatized the absurdity of our system of major one-way streets. Why has it taken so long for council to get the message? Richard Harris, Hamilton