How Road Diets Work
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Jerry Foster
Sep 12, 2015, 6:15:48 AM9/12/15
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Re the planned Canal Pte Blvd road diet, here's an explanation w video by Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City:
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/08/a-wonderfully-clear-explanation-of-how-road-diets-work/401951/
and a perhaps more interesting discussion on the Strong Towns site:
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/9/5/debating-bike-lanes
If you haven't run across Charles Marohn's Strong Towns group, he spoke at a Complete Streets summit at Rutgers a couple years ago, makes the argument that sprawl pattern development doesn't generate enough economic return to justify the investment, see:
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/3/18/infrastructure-cult-math
It's an interesting read for those who wonder where our tax money goes, coming from a professional engineer and planner, he makes the case that raising the gas tax to continue the misinvestment is a mistake...
Jerry
http://www.citylab.com/design/2015/08/a-wonderfully-clear-explanation-of-how-road-diets-work/401951/
and a perhaps more interesting discussion on the Strong Towns site:
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/9/5/debating-bike-lanes
If you haven't run across Charles Marohn's Strong Towns group, he spoke at a Complete Streets summit at Rutgers a couple years ago, makes the argument that sprawl pattern development doesn't generate enough economic return to justify the investment, see:
http://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/3/18/infrastructure-cult-math
It's an interesting read for those who wonder where our tax money goes, coming from a professional engineer and planner, he makes the case that raising the gas tax to continue the misinvestment is a mistake...
Jerry
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