More or less, yes. The entire road grid south of Truman is designed to get people downtown fast.beautyfromashes wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 4:11 pm N-S lights are timed longer. I assume this is to get people from the wealthy suburbs (Brookside, MH, etc) to DT office jobs.
In Midtown and the east side south of Truman there's a N-S major street every four blocks, every 0.2 miles or so.
The E-W streets are spaced twice that at about 0.4 miles apart.
It's very well done as a hierarchy where your neighborhood street is 25mph slow, the E-W major is a little faster with less parking on it and the N-S street should be express. When you're walking you're going maybe 4-5 blocks at most to a transit stop.
Even before modes shifted to bus and car Main should have longer light cycles to allow vehicles to move N-S much faster. In the peak car era Main had for many years (and still might) a two hour peak use lane. 7-9 it was three lanes NB, 4-6 it was three lanes SB.
So in that model, to emphasize transit usage as the main mode, the street will give up lanes for the changing mode and the light cycles will still prioritize N-S traffic.
After all, there's a notable street three blocks in both directions cars can shift to. If transit use is the goal we have to induce demand away from cars on Main.
One really easy way would be a small tranit only section between 27th and Pershing. Allow local traffic to the Condos but force cars onto Grand and Broadway and Gillham
Main from the city market to UMKC should probably become a 20mph car zone too