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Yes what we should do is complain that people are starting to use side streets because no one plans on increased traffic when developers and homeowners are buil
by dkhenry 10y ago
Yes what we should do is complain that people are starting to use side streets because no one plans on increased traffic when developers and homeowners are building mega suburbs. If you want sub-urban sprawl, but don't want to invest in infrastructure then your street should be over run with commuters.
- enoch_r 10y agoOne of the examples in the article is Clinton St, a designated "bike boulevard" in a dense residential neighborhood of Portland, 1-2 blocks south of one of the bigger, cooler commercial streets in the city. This is not a case of suburbanites suffering for their sins in some morality play--some of the best bike infrastructure in the city is what's being overrun by commuters. Neither the people living along Clinton, nor the bicyclists who were incredibly unhappy to lose a low-stress route through the city, are looking to maintain a suburban lifestyle.