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Old Posted Sep 20, 2021, 2:44 AM
TheRitsman TheRitsman is offline
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Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere View Post
They don’t have to be two way per se, just much narrower with actual sidewalks. Chop a lane off of them at least and we are talking a bit more.

East of downtown they need to be two way for sure though.
Id like to see them both go two way. There are two major reasons.

1) Cycling through downtown can mean massive detours because of the one-ways. It's honestly the biggest reason why I think the cycling population isn't larger than it is here.

2) One day it would be nice to get two way bus service on Main because it would give LRT much more breathing room, and unfortunately if you live downtown, getting to and from King can take quite a while. We live around Barton Street, and getting to my buddy's house at Gage can take 35-40 minutes, of which only 18 minutes is on the bus because the fastest way to the bus is to walk a massive distance. Transferring isn't much better because it's so close that getting on a bus for 2 stops is kind of silly and transferring can take longer, and if you're not near a north/south bus route it can take longer to walk east or west just to get to a bus you'll have to transfer anyway. All to say, I bike instead because it's 18 minutes for me on a bike to his house.
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