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/
College Boulevard Road Diet
- Anthony_Hugo98
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Re: College Boulevard Road Diet
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.
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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
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Re: College Boulevard Road Diet
I imagine that will come, there’s more than enough karens living in OP that’ll complain to the councilhorizons82 wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 5:24 pm 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?
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I assume that's why they added the 4' buffer and the spaces themselves are 9' wide.
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Sweet, now I can rip through there on my bike with less worry about getting crushed.
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That could be one heckuva luxurious bike path.
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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.Anthony_Hugo98 wrote: ↑Tue May 26, 2020 1:30 amI imagine that will come, there’s more than enough karens living in OP that’ll complain to the councilhorizons82 wrote: ↑Mon May 25, 2020 5:24 pm 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?
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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
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Re: College Boulevard Road Diet
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.