General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

No, there's nothing diagonal indicated. Just wide zebra crosswalks and clearly delineated bike lanes.

I’m concerned about some locations where it appears they are proposing to remove the left turn lanes. Now as many around here will know, I’m the guy who thinks almost all of our 4 lane roads could be 2 lane roads; but I think it’s clearly insane to remove left turn lanes (and right turn lanes, for that matter) on University. The intersections are precisely where more than one lane in each direction is definitely needed; in between intersections is where I suspect one lane per direction would be enough. This would also make mid-block crossings really easy. Imagine if the street is essentially 3 lanes, one lane in each direction plus a lane that becomes left turn lanes at major intersections and elsewhere is a median that forms a huge pedestrian refuge. It might also work for it to be a left turn lane for carefully chosen locations between the major intersections.

I wouldn't worry. There is exactly zero chance the region would remove a left turn lane that is actually warranted by turning traffic.  Given they haven't even mentioned the idea it's probably just for illustrative purposes.

Also, right turn lanes are 100% unnecessary if they have pedestrian scrambles.