Just a 1 second reduction in delay for every block increases speed by an entire minute round trip. 15% improvements are legitimately very hard. That it's such a hard problem to make these reductions stick is why adding trains is the chosen path. You have the classic catch 22. A successful downtown drives train trips which increases all modes of traffic and delays the train.
The path mentioned, to move to train only, is the only workable path. I'm not talking no car but true train only. No peds, no cars, no busses.
Wouldn't do anything. How does the city know who's through traffic or not?JBmidtown wrote:How hard could it be to throw up a few "no thru traffic" signs between Truman and 6th streets?
What you do is set it up so that you put a controlled access point in the middle of each block by tearing out the concrete across the street and making a physical gap of some sort and car barriers where the train doesn't go. You pair this with making all cross streets two way. It effectively cuts the block in half so drivers would be local money. you expand sidewalks to take over parking and/or add bike lanes down the turn lane
Once a block has no parking entrances onto it you can demo the remaining concrete, add dedicated bike lanes in the turn lane or such