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Originally Posted by Hayward
I feel though alot of the development along North is NOT transit oriented. They have catered too much to the car. The place is literally a vertical strip mall. And congested lots and expensive decks haven't done much to keep people from continuing to circle the block. For someone like me who has sold their car long ago, I'd be more than happy to propose some non-autocentric approach, but I have none to fix the problems in that area. It's a shame there is no continuous parallel street to North. If there was you could route North Ave one way west bound and the other street one way Eastbound to Clyborn,. But you got a mess of railroad tracks, the river , and a bunch of recently built development blocking a plan like that.
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a great non-auto-centric approach would be to embrace the limitations of east west traffic, and to increase transit capacity through dedicated bus lanes between the Ashland and Lasalle.
St. Louis has reduced lanes from 2 in each direction to 1 in each, without a reduction in travel times. This does reduce overall car capacity, but I think we can all agree the current car domination is not desired.
This wouldn't alter access from the north or the south to these businesses, but might change the use of North from a traffic sewer.
Anyway, it's incremental, and I've seen only improvement for North/Clybourn in the past decade.