ROTHENBURGER: The battle begins to get rid of one-way streets downtown
WHEN I ASKED Coun. Denis Walsh on last week’s segment of CFJC-TV’s Balance of Power what single thing he’d fix about downtown Kamloops if he could, I was surprised at his answer.
I expected him to talk about parking, or maybe densification. But no, Walsh’s answer was (wait for it) one-way streets.
Specifically, changing Seymour Street from one-way back to two-way.
The idea has been on the books for at least 20 years and nobody at City Hall has had the will to take it on seriously. At one point, and I remember this well, blueprints were drawn up to transform Seymour into a pedestrian-friendly two-way street focused on people instead of cars.