[Uptown] Erb/Bridgeport/Caroline/Albert Reconstruction

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How do we know that this improvement was caused by the change from one-way to two-way streets? 

Locally in KItchener, crime has fallen and property values have increased in Cedar Hill.  Was there some hidden one-way street in the Cedar Hill neighbourhood that was converted to two-way?  Or could it possibly be that there are other possible causes for drops in crime and improvements in property values?

The argument is that converting one-way streets to two-way has myriad benefits. It is not that some or all of those benefits can only be achieved by converting one-way streets to two-way.What does Cedar Hill have to do with it? Property values increase, and crime falls, in all kinds of neighbourhoods...but what would most of those have to do with a discussion about converting one-way streets?

There are a lot of case studies very nearby us of streets that reverted back to two-way that we don't need to hypothesize about neighbourhoods that aren't relevant to the discussion. In Kitchener, maybe we would talk about Charles and Duke instead of low-volume streets in Cedar Hill. Only very slightly farther afield, streets like St. Paul in St. Catharines and James in Hamilton have benefited from reversion from one-way.

At the same time Kitchener and the region have put a lot of focus in the area and spent a lot of money there and in surrounding areas to attract more development.