Buford Highway Plans to Reduce Traffic Lanes From Six to Four to Better Utilize RoW (transportation, transit)

[arjay57]

How about one 7 foot bike lane on one side of the road?

Otherwise let's do it and get some buses on the road ASAP. People are tired of walking along in the boiling sun and the freezing rain.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by arjay57

How about one 7 foot bike lane on one side of the road?

Otherwise let's do it and get some buses on the road ASAP. People are tired of walking along in the boiling sun and the freezing rain.

A 2-way, protected cycle track? Two-Way Cycle Tracks - National Association of City Transportation Officials

[cqholt]

For BRT to succeed in Atlanta, we must learn from successful systems (Curitiba, BZ https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2...s-50-buildings) and failures (Delhi, IN Why Bus Rapid Transit Failed in Delhi - CityLab)

The first problem: The special dedicated bus lane was just about six kilometers (3.6 miles) long. After that, the buses would re-enter the flood of regular traffic. "This was too small a corridor to test any pilot because the average route length for bus users in Delhi is about 10 kilometers,” says Amit Bhatt, WRI’s strategy head of integrated urban transport at EMBARQ India, WRI’s sustainable mobility arm. “At least it should have been a corridor that starts at an origin and ends at a destination." (A plan to extend the corridor to 9 miles and build 14 more was never implemented.)

The second issue was that other vehicles, such as school buses, were also allowed into the BRT lane. (For a while, so were cars and two-wheelers.) And third, there was no education about how to safely and efficiently navigate the system and no incentive to change travel behavior. Other Indian cities fared far better on this front: Ahmedabad, for example, launched its 10 miles of BRT with a fleet of high-tech buses, closed bus shelters, and a pre-boarding ticketing system—all free of cost for three months.

[cqholt]

Take survey for Buford Hwy Master Plan.
Buford Highway Masterplan - Home

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by cqholt

A 2-way, protected cycle track? Two-Way Cycle Tracks - National Association of City Transportation Officials

Sounds good to me.

Let it be done.

[fourthwarden]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Take survey for Buford Hwy Master Plan.
Buford Highway Masterplan - Home

Direct Link to the presentation. Also, I took the survey even though I'm not up that way as much as I like. I'll have to swing up to get some delicious Tofu Seafood Soup!

Edit: Worth noting, that they actually included bus lanes in one option. I like their ideas on reusing space, especially with the markets and such. I also like their admittance that they need to consolidate curbcuts. That'll do a lot to help improve the bike / bus / walking experience.

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by fourthwarden

Direct Link to the presentation. Also, I took the survey even though I'm not up that way as much as I like. I'll have to swing up to get some delicious Tofu Seafood Soup!

Edit: Worth noting, that they actually included bus lanes in one option. I like their ideas on reusing space, especially with the markets and such. I also like their admittance that they need to consolidate curbcuts. That'll do a lot to help improve the bike / bus / walking experience.

They gave a fair bit of attention to the Buford Highway-285 interchange and noted just how badly it needs to be improved. To be honest, I think the whole corridor of 285 from 85 to Peachtree Industrial needs to be rebuilt, complete with C/D lanes like the ones they're about to put at 285/400. That's one of the worst traffic spots in the metro area at rush hour.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by toll_booth

They gave a fair bit of attention to the Buford Highway-285 interchange and noted just how badly it needs to be improved. To be honest, I think the whole corridor of 285 from 85 to Peachtree Industrial needs to be rebuilt, complete with C/D lanes like the ones they're about to put at 285/400. That's one of the worst traffic spots in the metro area at rush hour.

Money...

[toll_booth]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Money...

Well yeah. Long-term thing.

[arjay57]

This is an older story but the insights on Buford highway are good.

“There’s certainly the challenge of change and displacing the thing that makes [Buford Highway] special,” Gravel said in an interview at the lounge about the corridor’s highly diverse immigrant culture. “Nowhere else has that sense of identity, that sense of place…There’s nothing else like it” in metro Atlanta or most other suburban corridors nationwide, he said. “What happens to it is really important.”

Without a new kind of culture-focused planning, Gravel told the crowd, Buford’s main asset will be displaced for another generic strip-mall suburb. He suggested turning two lanes of the roadway into bus rapid transit lanes. And instead of pumping money into standard redevelopments, he called for investing in affordable housing or “a venture capital fund for immigrant businesses.”

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