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As a European its just insane how wide these streets are.
Did they want to build a highway or a neigborhood street?
US street designers and their bosses seriously need to get this "wider=better" mentality out of their head. Its no wonder people are driving this fast when the streets are this wide, its because it feels slow.
Its also bad in other ways: wasted money, needlessly destroyed nature, increased urban heat island effect and increased flooding risk because its sealed.
This particular street is wider because it once had trolley tracks running down the middle, before the Key System was ripped out in 1958 by General Motors.
Not Just Bikes just put up a video about how fire-fighters and their trucks fight for wider roads while having larger trucks than the rest of the world. Perfect timing there.
we have this issue on my street: we can't get speed bumps because it's an access point for the local fire department, and apparently they can only navigate the wide-low speed bumps (that do little to slow down traffic because people just drive 50mph over them).
it's ridiculous. we're on a one-car-wide side lane so traffic routinely snarls to a stop as people decide it's their god-given turn to go now and honk and gesticulate instead of letting everyone get on with their lives. and when it's not jammed with that bullshit, people are flying down the street (kids living in every house down both sides). Fucking nutbags.
I watched this video yesterday and it's the widest yet.
Maybe their dicks shrink even more and they need even bigger yank tanks. Better plan ahead