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Can they pull back on the Grant Road widening project? This is a serious question, since you brought up pulling back on another design. Midtown is a wasteland waiting for more concrete and “Michigan Louies” — talk about an unsafe design that’s bad for bikes and confusing for drivers! I was a bus/bike commuter for many years when I worked at the UA and lived near Ft. Lowell Park — seven miles each way. The streets are far more dangerous now than they were the 1990s. The streets are wider and faster, the vehicles are giant-sized, delivery drivers are parking and driving every which way on neighborhood streets and there are no sidewalks! I recently walked to a store on Speedway and had a harrowing experience getting across the street at a hawk light. I had a conversation with a 30-something young man at one of the stores. He said he avoids crossing Speedway — regardless of how he’s traveling … on foot, on a bike or by car — because of how dangerous he perceives Speedway to be. Traffic was horrific yesterday.
Similarly, why does the 22nd Street bridge need to be expanded to 3 lanes each way, seemingly at the expense of pedestrians, cyclists, and local access to Aviation highway?
Can they pull back on the Grant Road widening project? This is a serious question, since you brought up pulling back on another design. Midtown is a wasteland waiting for more concrete and “Michigan Louies” — talk about an unsafe design that’s bad for bikes and confusing for drivers! I was a bus/bike commuter for many years when I worked at the UA and lived near Ft. Lowell Park — seven miles each way. The streets are far more dangerous now than they were the 1990s. The streets are wider and faster, the vehicles are giant-sized, delivery drivers are parking and driving every which way on neighborhood streets and there are no sidewalks! I recently walked to a store on Speedway and had a harrowing experience getting across the street at a hawk light. I had a conversation with a 30-something young man at one of the stores. He said he avoids crossing Speedway — regardless of how he’s traveling … on foot, on a bike or by car — because of how dangerous he perceives Speedway to be. Traffic was horrific yesterday.
Similarly, why does the 22nd Street bridge need to be expanded to 3 lanes each way, seemingly at the expense of pedestrians, cyclists, and local access to Aviation highway?