Comment 35681

By jason (registered) | Posted November 23, 2009 at 17:00:56

Jon Dalton, you are correct. I've been on streets in Portland that used to be 3 and 4 lane one-way. Now the sidewalks have been widened huge and traffic is restricted to one lane while LRT gets a lane. In other cases, cars are restricted to one-lane while street parking gets both curbs. And in Portland, they don't have 8 billion signs every 6 feet restricting street parking 10 feet from curbs, near taxi zones, near bridges, trees and whatever other stupid reasons there are that one can drive an entire block in Hamilton and see 4 street spaces because the rest of the curb lane is reserved for use 2 times a week by some delivery truck or something. Great use of public space.

In Portland, it's curb to curb parking. The spaces are painted on the road which helps to cram more cars onto a block instead of leaving it up to the drivers to make their own spots like we do on Locke etc.....

balance is the key. Enough of the over-zoning and overly red taped restrictions on everything in this city.

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