New Urban Dilemma - Planning U-turn
At the intersection lights and at the end of a half-mile raised median and fence a driver makes a prohibited u-turn; a denigration of traffic engineers and an insult to city planners.
On either side of the fence, small commercial and retail business thrive on the traffic that uses this major arterial. But thanks to band-aid engineering and reactive planning neither pedestrians nor cars can access the other side.
The fence and the raised median are not coming down any time soon; they will remain lasting monuments to the New Urban Dilemma: drawing roads of the past for a present that caught everyone by surprise.
This embarrassing and risky condition must inform the design of new major connectors.
As for the existing ones........... it would be a good topic for an Transportation planning competition.
New Urban Dilemma - Planning U-turn
At the intersection lights and at the end of a half-mile raised median and fence a driver makes a prohibited u-turn; a denigration of traffic engineers and an insult to city planners.
On either side of the fence, small commercial and retail business thrive on the traffic that uses this major arterial. But thanks to band-aid engineering and reactive planning neither pedestrians nor cars can access the other side.
The fence and the raised median are not coming down any time soon; they will remain lasting monuments to the New Urban Dilemma: drawing roads of the past for a present that caught everyone by surprise.
This embarrassing and risky condition must inform the design of new major connectors.
As for the existing ones........... it would be a good topic for an Transportation planning competition.