#2 over #1 please. I’m frustrated that road and sidewalk design is dictated by oversized emergency vehicles. We often can’t have separated bike lanes, sidewalk barriers, or other safe infrastructure because emergency vehicles can’t fit. Whenever I stand at the NW corner of Parliament and Carlton waiting to cross I note how narrow the sidewalk is, and how southbound trucks ride over the corner as they turn right onto Carlton - and I think we need a deeper sidewalk and a barrier here. But of course firetrucks seemingly cannot make the turn if a streetcar is there. Another example, in the suburbs, residential streets are built wide enough for six cars across, while in older city areas like Cabbagetown or Parkdale, streets may be only two cars wide - which would never be allowed today to serve the firetrucks. The solution isn’t to force infrastructure to accommodate massive vehicles, but to procure emergency vehicles that can navigate the streets we actually have. For example here is a firetruck in Paris.
