General Road and Highway Discussion

[ijmorlan]

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.

What? Gaukel has parking spaces that are only accessible from Gaukel, so it is definitely "useful" for that. The point of woonerfing it would be to allow that while discouraging or prohibiting through traffic.

OK, yes, actually you’re right. I was thinking of the woonerf as necessarily implying that it would be open at both ends, whereas I have myself already in effect proposed a woonerf by suggesting that access to those parking lots would be permitted by driving on Gaukel from Hall’s Lane.

But I don’t think through traffic should be permitted, nor traffic between Charles St. and Hall’s Lane; and as properties are redeveloped, the parking access should be changed to be directly off Hall’s Lane. The woonerf aspect should be considered a transitional situation.