General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

I was downtown on Gaukel today for an event and saw that they've installed new traffic lights on Gaukel at Charles. I guess this means they are not extending the pedestrian space up to City Hall? I was really hoping it'd be pedestrian only from King to the Joseph. 

To piggyback on the previous comments, it seems like that little section of Gaukel would be an ideal candidate to be woonerf-ed.

I think it’s a good candidate to be closed to motor vehicle traffic entirely. I don’t think it’s actually a great woonerf candidate; it’s only useful at all as a through route, not to access driveways on Gaukel itself. I view woonerfs as a way of providing needed vehicular access to an area which would be closed entirely except for some low-traffic needs.