Do you have any idea how bad Amsterdam was in the '70s? Total car sewer, made the U.S. look good. Then they decided they didn't want a car sewer and changed it; they're still changing it 50 years later. We can change our cities if we want to, but we just look at the whole problem and throw up our hands, claiming it's too hard, and too expensive, and would take too long, and we can't do it. Sharrows are a physical expression of that attitude.
What about the other streets in D.C.? Can any of them be fixed? You can't point to one bad problem and claim that's why nothing can be improved; that's defeatist and and a waste of time.
Originally Posted by
dynaryder
It would,but we're long past that in most cities. They've already been built,and there really isn't room to fix things.
Perfect example: look up Dupont Circle in DC. Horrible design. A traffic circle within a traffic circle,with traffic lights thrown in. Fixing that would require a complete redo where they'd have to shut it down to do the work and that would mess up traffic for the entire area. And making it a proper traffic circle would require either underground tunnels or ped bridges to get to the park in the middle. Eliminating the park would fix the traffic probs,but the locals would NOT stand for that.