flyingember wrote:chaglang wrote:The parking would be a nightmare for residents and businesses, and you're creating an E-W barrier across midtown. It sounds like SW Trafficway with streetcars. No thanks.
how would parking be a nightmare by sending people to a handful of parking garages and then on to use the streetcar? isn't that the exact goal of the line downtown? there already isn't parking ON Main in most places except on the weekends and on the weekend there's a huge number of underutilized lots then along the line.
yes, you want barriers. this is one thing Overland Park got right. you want to send all the traffic to a handful of E-W roads and not going into neighborhoods.
which already exist. i.e. 27th, 31st, Armour, 39th, 47th.
see Metcalf just north of 435 for this model.
First of all, you never said anything about garages. You just said "push the traffic" onto the side streets", which is an entirely different concept. Though we're apparently talking about garages now, I still think it's a bad idea. The city isn't going to build any parking garages on Main or on adjacent streets. Midtown has changed enough in the last few years that doing something like that would be next to impossible. And although there are a handful of garages on Main, I don't think it's a good idea for the city to hinge their parking strategy on real estate they don't have control of.
And, no, I don't want barriers. If you live in the area, those little side streets are handy as hell. I use them all the time to avoid the no left turn intersections. The reason that most intersections on Main are no-left is because it ties up traffic. U-turns would be at least as bad. It's essentially the same manoever, except you also have to hope that people don't bungle it into a 3 point turn.
Metcalf just north of 435 never stuck me as a particularly easy place to navigate. You're also talking about a road that's much wider than Main.
