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By SpaceMonkey (registered) | Posted November 29, 2010 at 09:10:41
Adam2 said "Spacemonkey, I'll take success for our city over success for our streets any day. A city is so much more than just a collection of streets for driving. We have highways if you enjoy driving so much. Cities are for living".
I'll take success for our city over success for our streets as well. I also believe that a city is much more than a collection of streets for driving. I'm quite aware of the highways. Adam offered nothing but a misdirection of the intent of my post and he gets upvoted? No need to respond to that. I don't want to re-direct the topic. I just want people to reflect on what Adam is really doing in his response to me and whether it truly deserves upvoting. No where in my post did I even suggest that a city's streets are more important than the over all success of a city. Nor did I suggest that a city is 'just a collection of streets'. I'm baffled by people's though process on here sometimes.
Ryan, I'm curious how much driving you do. I don't mean for that to sound provocative. I'm genuinely curious. If you do a fair bit of driving, do you not also find it much easier and much safer to cross one way streets than it is to cross two way streets. I also believe that it's important for streets to be safe for pedestrians. The safety of drivers also needs to be considered though. I've done a lot of reading and thinking on the subject, and I would never be so fool hardy as to just (wrongly) assume that the difference between 2 and 1 way streets is merely the direction of traffic, and that 'everything else remains static'.
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