College Boulevard Road Diet

[DaveKCMO]

Can't believe this actually happened. Metcalf to Nall resurfaced and striped to four lanes instead of six, with on-street parking added.

https://www.opkansas.org/newsroom/colle ... t-in-2020/

[Anthony_Hugo98]

I imagine projects like this will help to inspire developments that don’t require AS MUCH parking space on site as was the previous norm.

[horizons82]

It's great to see OP is serious about urbanizing that area. That said, adding parallel parking w/o reducing the speed limit from 45 to at least 35 seems like a bad combo, doesn't it?

[Anthony_Hugo98]

It's great to see OP is serious about urbanizing that area. That said, adding parallel parking w/o reducing the speed limit from 45 to at least 35 seems like a bad combo, doesn't it?

I imagine that will come, there’s more than enough karens living in OP that’ll complain to the council

[DaveKCMO]

I assume that's why they added the 4' buffer and the spaces themselves are 9' wide.

[StL_Dan]

Sweet, now I can rip through there on my bike with less worry about getting crushed.

[smh]

That could be one heckuva luxurious bike path.

[empires228]

It's great to see OP is serious about urbanizing that area. That said, adding parallel parking w/o reducing the speed limit from 45 to at least 35 seems like a bad combo, doesn't it?

I imagine that will come, there’s more than enough karens living in OP that’ll complain to the council

I think that’s why they kept the start of this project really quiet after proposing it to try to make the convention center area more attractive. People threw a fit at the thought of even touching it.

[GRID]

I don't get it. There is like zero demand for street parking there. Why not just make a really nice protected cycle track?

[Anthony_Hugo98]

I don't get it. There is like zero demand for street parking there. Why not just make a really nice protected cycle track?

There has been issues with parking availability for some of the larger conventions. I’ve only ever seen it get that full a handful of times, but I imagine the city saw it as a decent opportunity, and location, to test a road diet of this sort.