Council members Wednesday voted to finalize plans that would remove a protected bike lane along downtown Main Street and add 40 angled parking spaces after public criticism of a previous […]
Three lanes of traffic thundering by is something I really enjoy experiencing when I’m visiting shops in the downtown area. The experience of reversing out of angled parking back into traffic is essential for me to consider shopping there!
Even Portland just put in a bunch of angled parking on Broadway on the east side. Granted it was a consolation in order to put in a semi-protected bike lane across the street and lower the road’s speed limit, but good god is backing out blind into multiple lanes of through traffic an atrocious idea. There’s no rationalizing it IMO.
Three lanes of traffic thundering by is something I really enjoy experiencing when I’m visiting shops in the downtown area. The experience of reversing out of angled parking back into traffic is essential for me to consider shopping there!
It’s unfortunate.
Even Portland just put in a bunch of angled parking on Broadway on the east side. Granted it was a consolation in order to put in a semi-protected bike lane across the street and lower the road’s speed limit, but good god is backing out blind into multiple lanes of through traffic an atrocious idea. There’s no rationalizing it IMO.