12-11-2017, 03:00 PM
(12-11-2017, 02:18 PM)plam Wrote:(12-11-2017, 01:55 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: We can't be too smug here, UW removed sidewalks from one side of Ring Rd. on the UW campus.
Not quite the same thing. I know that the Ring Road work didn't get universally positive reviews here. But there are 0 trip generators on the outside edge of Ring Road. The goal was to channel the crossings to a number of specific points (which are the logical ones).
Some are logical, some most certainly are not. But more to the point, channeling all the crossings to one point creates more congestion for both cars and pedestrians, because now peds all cross at the same point.
If the university felt there was a safety issue they should be removing the cars and redesigning the road to be safer instead of freaking out about buses and sidewalks. Now we have pedestrians walking on the road instead. Even if this wasn't the worst sidewalk to remove, it was a bad one on given the pedestrian nature of campus.