Comment 78132

By kettal (registered) | Posted June 07, 2012 at 18:52:32 in reply to Comment 78121

I guess I'm confused. I thought you were arguing that we need to find a compromise between liveability and through traffic, but now you seem to be saying that you prefer one-ways because they offer more liveability and less convenience for through drivers than two way streets.

You certainly are confused. My point is that lively streets are just as possible on one-ways as they are on two ways. You're just complicating it by trying to play one team against the other.

Nor have we even touched on the fact that two-ways are better for street retail.

This might be true if the majority of customers are arriving in cars, (in itself this is quite impossible, because on-street parking will never provide enough parking spaces to sustain a full retail strip). Any pedestrian-oriented retail strip will get most of their customers from pedestrians, cyclists, and transit users.

I also question how one-ways are better for cyclists. The restricted one-ways you are proposing might offer more room for bikelanes, but I'm not sure the majority of cyclists appreciate having to ride several blocks out of their way to get to their destination anymore than drivers do.

Perhaps you should have clicked the link above, because it clearly shows a two-way cycle track alongside a one way street. This is how two-way cycle tracks are built in pretty much every city they exist.

Somehow, I get the feeling you are going at this debate with blinders on.

Comment edited by kettal on 2012-06-07 18:56:13

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