Dear Mayor and Council,

This email may reach you too late to affect your decision, but I felt you should know that the city of Hamiton itself found one-way streets are more dangerous for (young) pedestrians:

"A recent study reviewed pedestrian motor vehicle injuries to children up to 14 years of age in the City of Hamilton from 1978 to 1994. The child pedestrian injury rate was 2.5 times higher on one-way streets than on two-way streets (46 vs.20 per 1000,000 children per 100 km of street per year). Children living in the poorest Hamilton neighbourhoods were three times more likely to be injured than those living in the wealthiest neighbourhoods (33 vs. 12 per 100,000 per 100 km of street per year)."

Health Issues Report 2000, prepared by the Social & Public Health Services Division of the City of Hamilton & Region of Hamilton-Wentworth.

Please take this into account in making your decision today regarding two-way conversion of downtown streets.  The Durand Neighbourhood Association strongly supports these conversions.

Yours sincerely,

Nicholas Kevlahan
Vice President, Durand Neighbourhood Association

Update from Ward 1 Councillor Brian McHattie:

Hi Nicholas,
 
Your email helped turn this around today and I had the opportunity to read it out to Council when Councillor Pasuta shared it with me via his Blackberry - good work!
 
Tks
Brian