09-19-2022, 04:51 AM
So I've been thinking on stroads for the last little while here and I am thinking that service streets can provide a solution to them.
I am trying this idea out with a case study on Fairway Rd. (one of our stroadiest stroads). Here I've added service streets along the road to service all the retail businesses along Fairway Rd. between Wilson and Manitou. It eliminates dozens of driveways and two fully signalized intersections. It would clearly be a far far safer road, and would have bike infra for very cheap.
The cost is of course to access (as it always is) drivers in the other direction would have to go ~1 minute out of their way to make a U-turn. I feel like this is an easy price to pay, but given our traffic engineers love affair with stroads, I figure it'd be a hard sell.
You guys have any other thoughts on this.
I am trying this idea out with a case study on Fairway Rd. (one of our stroadiest stroads). Here I've added service streets along the road to service all the retail businesses along Fairway Rd. between Wilson and Manitou. It eliminates dozens of driveways and two fully signalized intersections. It would clearly be a far far safer road, and would have bike infra for very cheap.
The cost is of course to access (as it always is) drivers in the other direction would have to go ~1 minute out of their way to make a U-turn. I feel like this is an easy price to pay, but given our traffic engineers love affair with stroads, I figure it'd be a hard sell.
You guys have any other thoughts on this.