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Join the club. San Francisco is already well on its way towards the same goal. SF is easily the most car-hostile city in the US, by far. Lately they've upped

Join the club. San Francisco is already well on its way towards the same goal. SF is easily the most car-hostile city in the US, by far. Lately they've upped the ante with a set of absurd red transit-only lanes on Mission St.[1] that prevent other vehicles from more than a few blocks of passage, forcing the non-transit vehicular traffic to take side streets.[2][3] This is in addition to the constant removal of street parking spaces, replacement of parking spots with parklets, the constant addition of bulbouts, medians and traffic islands and a variety of other traffic "calming" measures you didn't even knew could be legally deployed on American surface roads.[4] You don't need to be an urban planner to see where this is headed. Eventually, SF wants to be able to make the city mostly a public transit only city with whole neighborhoods that are pedestrian only. Bike lanes will be taking up the rest of the street acreage. I bet these changes will be coming to your city sooner than later, depending on the amount of resistance they confront. That much is a given. [1] http://i.imgur.com/ElD7ILi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/ElD7ILi.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jbu0fg4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/jbu0fg4.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tNHrkxa.jpg http://i.imgur.com/tNHrkxa.jpg [2] https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/mission-street-rapid-surveys-what-we%E2%80%99ve-found-so-far https://www.sfmta.com/about-sfmta/blog/mission-street-rapid-... [3] http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/18/12540620/mission-locals-grill-mta-over-red-lanes-but-the-red-remains http://sf.curbed.com/2016/8/18/12540620/mission-locals-grill... [4] http://sf.curbed.com/maps/mapping-all-43-awesome-san-francisco-public-parklets http://sf.curbed.com/maps/mapping-all-43-awesome-san-francis... http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-new-view-of-Twin-Peaks-roads-without-cars-or-6887658.php http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/A-new-view-of-Twi... http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/01/13/dismissing-sffds-irrational-protests-sfmta-approves-bulb-outs-at-school/ http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/01/13/dismissing-sffds-irrati... http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/10/18/sfmta-reveals-strategy-to-streamline-traffic-calming-projects/ http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/10/18/sfmta-reveals-strategy-...

honkhonkpants 10y ago
65000 people take those buses every day, while those lanes carry a tiny fraction of that traffic in private cars. I think we should just close Mission to cars entirely. Yeah we'd lose, what, 60 parking spaces? That seems like a great trade to me.
nicolas_t 10y ago
> Eventually, SF wants to be able to make the city mostly a public transit only city with whole neighborhoods that are pedestrian only. Bike lanes will be taking up the rest of the street acreage. And what's so bad about this? I much rather prefer living in a city with mostly public transit and no cars. Air is cleaner, there's less noise and it's healthier to walk than be stuck in traffic.

honkhonkpants 10y ago

65000 people take those buses every day, while those lanes carry a tiny fraction of that traffic in private cars. I think we should just close Mission to cars entirely. Yeah we'd lose, what, 60 parking spaces? That seems like a great trade to me.

nicolas_t 10y ago

> Eventually, SF wants to be able to make the city mostly a public transit only city with whole neighborhoods that are pedestrian only. Bike lanes will be taking up the rest of the street acreage. And what's so bad about this? I much rather prefer living in a city with mostly public transit and no cars. Air is cleaner, there's less noise and it's healthier to walk than be stuck in traffic.