Another road will be re-striped to improve pedestrian safety. This time it’s Greenwood Avenue between 85th St and 105th St, which will be reduced from 4 lanes to 3, including a center turn lane.
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Unlike other road diets, this one was requested by the neighborhood and has not received many complaints. The project is planned to be completed this year and will help make things safer for pedestrians by reducing the number of lanes of traffic to cross.
I wish someone was tracking (on a city and regional level) these diets and new road construction, tracking the lane-miles of pavement we maintain for auto traffic. It’d be an interesting per-capita statistic, and I imagine anyone reading this shares my suspicion it would (inversely) correlate to quality of life.