Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
My friend was complaining about this. She's lived in the neighborhood for years and years and used to take Third downtown all the time. Now, with the two-way traffic and stop signs, she complains that it's like the suburbs. Maybe she's onto something. It does seem more like a suburban traffic pattern to make it two-way and put the onus on those using the thoroughfare to stop every few blocks.
Keep in mind that 2nd and Third Street was converted into a two-way-pair around the time that the automobile started to clog the roadways [[or when the earliest sprawl began filling now urban areas like Palmer Woods, Ferndale, or University District) in order to ease congestion in a pre-freeway Detroit.

Two way streets do provide better access to land uses along both roadways with less of a need to circle blocks to get to the final destination. Both roads are not congested. This means we can reduce turning movements as well as provide space for bicyclists within the current right of way.

The removal of two-way pairs will reduce the racetrack feel that now exists on these roads. Many places have gotten rid of thier two way pairs in favor of two way roads. Examples include Ann Arbor, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, and Muskegon. Some of these have even gotten rid of pedestrian malls as part of the equation to make streets more useful for its transit and other users [[both passenger car and trucks supplying goods).

In my opinion this has been needed since WSU was superblocked.