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Originally Posted by Blue_Cypress
We closed the Centre Street Bridge into downtown for years to rebuild it not too long back, and people found alternate routes. There is excess capacity in the local network, people are just too shortsighted to make use of it. I know this, because I live in the area (Rush hour traffic? hello 4th street!) This area is one of the most suitable to do major road closures of any in the city, because it is a grid, not a bunch of cul-de-sacs and loops. Most of the streets are approximately equivalent width to one another, and are all tied together. This means that with very little work, efficient detours are entirely plausible. They may even work better than the current traffic pattern.
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Definitely agree with you on this one. Honestly, Centre Street could be closed completely to traffic today, and the conditions would almost improve. 4th and Edmonton Trail are incredibly close, and very efficient. Grids are awesome for this very reason.
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