Still genuflecting to the gods of asphalt, facts be damned. Here in Franklin, "wider" and "faster" are default positions when it comes to roads of any kind - see 31st Street above (an expensive debacle of process and execution which is so little-traveled you'd almost never have to yell "game off" when playing street hockey on it):
Adding or widening shoulders for bike lanes or pedestrian paths is one
thing, but the notion that driving can be made safer by widening and
straightening roads (or "improving roadway alignment," as the report
puts it) has been debunked by Traffic author Tom Vanderbilt, transportation planner Eric Dumbaugh,
and others. In fact, making roads more complex and curvy can often
serve as a deterrent to unsafe driving practices, particularly on urban
streets.
Read the rest at Streetsblog Capitol Hill » New Report on Old Roads Uses Old Assumptions.
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