with the news of our extension being approved spreading around other urban forums online, I'm seeing a lot of people trashing our line on reddit and other international forums I follow... I guess we need to bend over backwards for a few people that want left hand turns and parking on a main street and build a poorly designed tram line because this is KC....normalthings wrote:What an Urban Planner from Amsterdam has to say about our system and extension.
Good. But the layout of the proposed route is madness. So many lanes of striped asphalt. Utter waste.
Why not import some of the world's best practice and do center-running (grassy) transit lanes with floating transit stops. Then one or two car lanes per direction, no parking and add a bike lane and trees. It would transform the street from something that looks like a suburb to a more urban place where it's actually nice to walk along. Not like it hasn't been [done before]
Oh that's right, that would cost some holy parking spots, on an important through-fare...
Some suggested we should have built more BRT instead of the streetcar, but they probably don't understand the stigma busses have in the US.
On the bright side, the Oklahoma City line design is more hated than ours...