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Originally Posted by CoryB
From my office I can see Portage and Main. When I am walking on street level I am commonly the only pedestrian on a whole block or more. Not sure where you are finding all these "pedestrians" but they definitely are not around Portage and Main. Opening Portage and Main isn't going to change people from non-pedestrians into pedestrians crossing Portage and Main frequently and in high volumes.
Additional traffic delays from opening Portage and Main leading to more businesses relocating their offices to the suburbs. Just look at the insurance office that moved their headquarters to Polo Park or all the offices in the Kennaston business park as examples of what will increasingly happen if travelling to/from downtown is made more difficult. Sure traffic will balance out and "people will adjust" over time but that is likely because they no longer come downtown ever, except for the off Jets games.
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Classic pro-barricade logical fallacy. In the same post you make two separate arguments that cancel the other out:
(1) The area around the intersection is devoid of pedestrians and opening the intersection will not change that.
(2) Opening the intersection will delay traffic to such a significant degree that it drives business away.
Which one is it? How do virtually no pedestrians cause major traffic delays?
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