Comment 106787

By mikeonthemountain (registered) | Posted December 09, 2014 at 13:50:46 in reply to Comment 106779

You're right, the character of a one way street sometimes gets mixed up with whether or not it is one way.

Main and King could be quite beautiful one way streets and still carry decent volume of cars, just like the photos Jason put in his article. Making it two way is just one of several suggested methods of making it more livable.

The rest of the city however seems overdue for two way reversion, wayfinding is so weird and arbitrarily complicated at times.

But the character of Main and King are pretty abysmal. I remember my first and last "real pedestrian trip" on business along Main, literally without exaggeration, gagging and taking quick short breaths along one segment while walking along the narrow sidewalk, at the filth spewing out of passing cars, buses, and trucks. From then on I made sure I was on bike all the time in order to get through "dirty" spots faster, even though exposure still occurs, it's net less. So just like Jason has written in this article, I too am someone who finds Main and King repulsive to be on where the waves of traffic are fast and close to the sidewalk. But this is not specifically a one-way issue, it is a street character issue.

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