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Re: Beyond Traffic: US DOT's 30 Year Framework for the Future
Author: Dieter
Date: 03-10-2015 - 17:43
All of the road diets I've seen have one lane in each direction and a center turn lane.
The lane is blocked by any stopping city bus or person parking in the parking strip.
Only a few I've seen have bike lanes, so you get stuck behind bikes you can't legally pass.
I'm puzzled as to how a traffic diet can move more cars, I really doubt the studies since most are done by people who want the traffic diet thing. Four lane roads I use you only have to stop for traffic turning at locations where there are no turn pockets and then only one lane stops behind the turning car, not everybody. Traffic diets during rush hour turn into long strings of cars and the only way you get a break is when a traffic light changes, so if you want to enter traffic from a parking lot or side street you are SOL until a light makes a break--when the street was four lanes you at least had an occasional shot at it.
The lane is blocked by any stopping city bus or person parking in the parking strip.
Only a few I've seen have bike lanes, so you get stuck behind bikes you can't legally pass.
I'm puzzled as to how a traffic diet can move more cars, I really doubt the studies since most are done by people who want the traffic diet thing. Four lane roads I use you only have to stop for traffic turning at locations where there are no turn pockets and then only one lane stops behind the turning car, not everybody. Traffic diets during rush hour turn into long strings of cars and the only way you get a break is when a traffic light changes, so if you want to enter traffic from a parking lot or side street you are SOL until a light makes a break--when the street was four lanes you at least had an occasional shot at it.
