Time to reduce travel lane widths to 10 ft

[sedimenjerry]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Ponce has a lot of development on it, lots of foot traffic as well. There is no reason the speed limit should be above 35 mph. Its this type of thinking that has gotten Atlanta to where it is with traffic and sprawl.

I'm not saying raise the speed limits. It's dangerous enough as is at 35. I'm just saying don't add bike lanes to an already dangerous major route.

[MattCW]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Ponce has a lot of development on it, lots of foot traffic as well. There is no reason the speed limit should be above 35 mph. Its this type of thinking that has gotten Atlanta to where it is with traffic and sprawl.

Then improve the buses to make people use them! Build a streetcar along it! Hurting existing roads won't help anything else, it'll just make people all the more irritated with the city.

[testa50]

Originally Posted by Caleb Longstreet

Narrow antiquated streets and alleyways...sure....never want to thin the lanes on interstates or GA highways which are quite a few "roads" in Atlanta.....can't gain enough by cutting 2' off except in the most generously poured (for future) shoulder laddened roads anyway....small gain in small areas.

I don't really care one way or another but this is just a ludicrous strawman. This thread isn't about interstates and highways.

[testa50]

Originally Posted by Gulch

And any sane traffic engineer/transportation planner will tell you that it was a really stupid idea that doesn't calm traffic at all.

Once again, I don't care about this particularly one way or another. But deluding yourself and acting like there's absolutely no merit to the idea is just nonsensical.

Traffic calming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I mean, there are legitimate debates to be had on the subject. But your line of reasoning has zero part in one.

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by testa50

Once again, I don't care about this particularly one way or another. But deluding yourself and acting like there's absolutely no merit to the idea is just nonsensical.

Traffic calming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I mean, there are legitimate debates to be had on the subject. But your line of reasoning has zero part in one.

I should've clarified it. The concept of traffic calming is a great one, but narrowing lane widths (not the number of lanes through a road diet) with the intent of slowing down traffic is a farce, and was only done to give the illusion of adding traffic capacity, even though the end result is awful traffic flow. Atlanta should be looking into road diets for the north-south avenues.

[cqholt]

Narrowing lanes makes the drivers slow down, since there is not a nice, wide lane for that driver to speed on. This can be explained when adding on-street parking to a road. It provides a buffer to the pedestrians and somehow makes the drivers slow down.