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Originally Posted by rsbear
For a cyclist relying upon body power I can see where having to go around the block to account for the one-way street grid might be a burden. But to simply label them "stupid one way streets" is, to me, stupid.
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yea it's "stupid" when reflecting on it from your computer in the calm quiet of your room. But when you are cycling in traffic and turn into a one way street by accident because you don't yet know your way around; well if you aren't calling it a "stupid one way street", I'd say you have something wrong with you. You are way too calm. Yea, now I can navigate downtown on a bike no problem. But it took me a couple months to get to that point. If I were tourist in this town I'd say "screw it" and just drive, adding more congestion.
I'm not 100% against the coupling, nor for it. There are downsides either way. Like urbanlife says, Couch on the west side is gonna be completely transformed, and probably not for the better. Living near the Wielder/Broadway coupling on the inner east side, I can say crossing Wielder is a much bigger pain in the ass than it should be. What would be a nice narrow street is basically ruined by excess through traffic that Broadway could probably handle (as a one-way it actually seems to have excess capacity). Sorry to be crude but that ambiance in that area sucks for pedestrians far more than it should, and I imagine the coupling has some part in that.
On the other hand we get rid of that idiotic Sandy/Burnside/11th/12th triangle from hell on the eastside... well... I'll believe that when I see it...
But you can disregard a lot of what I say cause I just don't like couplings very much. Can't really explain why, they just annoy me... I think it's cause they facilitate too much movement, where two-way streets facilitate staying put.