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    Quote Originally Posted by Meddle View Post

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    ....get all the goofy out of the way and reopen the street to traffic like responsible cities do.
    Jefferson is 8 lanes wide in that location. 4 of them are zooming onto or off of an expressway. And right through Detroit's historical center, where the radial spokes should connect with its prime natural amenity. Spokes that were designed for pedestrians, horses, and bicyclists, by the way.

    New York is a city of 8.623 million-- nearly 13 times the population of Detroit. Not only does Manhattan not have an 8 lane road, anywhere [[there is only one in the whole city, in Queens), it doesn't have an interstate except for about a half mile across its northernmost point, over 12 miles from downtown. Not even FDR Drive is 8 lanes wide. Besides, NY has successfully closed many streets to car traffic, most notably Broadway, one of its major thoroughfares. And they did that in New York's center of density: Midtown.

    Iheartthed, I'm not sure you were there yet, but NY also put a bunch of other streets on a diet in your neighborhood before they made the pedestrian plaza. They extended the sidewalks at the street corners along Fulton, Lafayette, DeKalb, and elsewhere -- forcing cars to make those turns more slowly, and making it easier and safer for pedestrians. They even moved the fire hydrants closer into the streets along with the sidewalks, as if to enforce the change was permanent.

    New York: responsible or goofy?

    I'm with iheartthed. Jefferson needs a road diet. Only some Detroiters [[and ex-Detroiters) would think all those cars zooming through there is a good idea.
    Last edited by bust; August-03-19 at 11:17 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bust View Post
    New York: responsible or goofy?
    The epitome of goofy.

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