And you thought it was already slow enough. Not according to city planners, which has adopted a *”road diet” strategy to make downtown’s streets more pedestrian-friendly.
*A modification of a road or street that narrows the road by removing travel lanes. Most commonly, a road diet involves the conversion of 4-lane street with a center turn lane to a 2-lane street with turn pockets, landscaped median, and on-street parking. The result, in general, is slower, more well-behaved car speeds with little or no reduction in traffic volume, greatly increased safety, improved street appearance, improved community pride, and a substantially improved environment for retail shops along the street.
Those who commute from east Atlanta and DeKalb to downtown have noticed the impact this strategy has had on Decatur Street, now plagued by bottlenecks and poor planning. Those difficult-to-navigate medians have been flattened, barely a month after they were erected. Guess who’s paying for that?
Filed under: the ATL, transportation
Sorry but that sounds like something a lib came up with.
I will say Atlanta intown drivers don’t give a damn about pedestrian cross walks. I watch people drive right through them (past the sign that says stop for pedestrians) everyday as a pedestrian tries to cross.