MissingMiddle
Active Member
10 foot sidewalk? What is this Paris or something?!
This type of improvement street improvement is not flashy but is probably the single best thing for the street and the area. A huge opportunity to fix several classic parking pole > wheel chair accessibility decisions as my shoddy math illustrated below.
Dreaming bigger and this whole street could go full woonerf/shared space/transit village plaza to everyone's benefit. 3rd Ave NW currently has a minimal role in traffic circulation and parking, and it might have on the highest daily pedestrians/driver ratios on any single block in the city outside of a few city centre exceptions.
We don't have to get rid of vehicles entirely, just rebalance the street to what it's most used for current (pedestrians) and start treating car drivers the way we treat wheel chair users today.
I agree, to prove your point it could be set up as one of the temporary/summer covid road closures.