03-09-2016, 12:03 AM
I used to live in the north-west quadrant of this neighborhood. At the time I didn't have a car, so I did a lot of walking and biking. I generally found it nice to walk in and certainly never felt that vehicle speeds were leading to an unsafe situation.
I can get behind the sidewalks, the streets here are straight and fast enough to justify them. In general I'm not always a fan, I've lived in some suburban areas that were perfectly walkable without even curbs. They had reasonably wide, but generally curvy streets, and interacted much less with arterial roads.
A lot of the traffic calming measures seem excessive and confusing. Some of the more basic things, like the speed bumps on Roslin make sense to me. The diverters (never heard them called that before, seems like a way to avoid saying 'make impassable') seem undesirable to me, as they break up internal traffic flow as well. I'd prefer to see speed bumps/raised intersections.
Some one ways might work well if applied carefully. From a ease of navigation standpoint it seems like long one way segments, or short ones with the remainder being two way are much better than the opposed segments. Nothing more fustrating than being able to see your destination, but having to go around the long way to get there. I know this is somewhat at odds with traffic calming. Perhaps opposing the segments off a fixed inner road is a good alternative (eg. opposing one ways running North-South branching off of William.
Anyways, that's my initial thoughts.
I can get behind the sidewalks, the streets here are straight and fast enough to justify them. In general I'm not always a fan, I've lived in some suburban areas that were perfectly walkable without even curbs. They had reasonably wide, but generally curvy streets, and interacted much less with arterial roads.
A lot of the traffic calming measures seem excessive and confusing. Some of the more basic things, like the speed bumps on Roslin make sense to me. The diverters (never heard them called that before, seems like a way to avoid saying 'make impassable') seem undesirable to me, as they break up internal traffic flow as well. I'd prefer to see speed bumps/raised intersections.
Some one ways might work well if applied carefully. From a ease of navigation standpoint it seems like long one way segments, or short ones with the remainder being two way are much better than the opposed segments. Nothing more fustrating than being able to see your destination, but having to go around the long way to get there. I know this is somewhat at odds with traffic calming. Perhaps opposing the segments off a fixed inner road is a good alternative (eg. opposing one ways running North-South branching off of William.
Anyways, that's my initial thoughts.