So, tomorrow they are
meeting to discuss the Allen Street redevelopment:
Along with Elmwood, I think this is one of the areas that has the greatest potential for ROI, and I'm going to try and attend. My thoughts on it below (which involve Wadsworth as well, which is unfortunately not a part of this project and gives me cause for concern). Much of it is geared towards increasing friendliness towards non-vehicular transportation, which I think should be encouraged for a drinking hot-spot.
- Extend bike path from Symphony Circle to Medical campus. This should be obvious, but after the debacle of Main Street, and the existing comments that mention a bike/pedestrian path between Washington and Oak but nothing of Allen, I'm worried the ball will be dropped again.
- Convert the street to one of the following: 1-way single lane (heading east, starting at Symphony Circle), 2-way with parking removed, or pedestrian zone. Seems safe to assume that only the first would be seriously considered.
The first two greatly improve the flow of traffic. Converting to 1-way would help with how difficult it is to use the parking lots adjacent to this street, allowing them to change to diagonal layout with cars reversing out instead of making the 20-point turn to exit going forward.
In the case of a pedestrian zone, Wadsworth could be connected to Days Park.
- Any additional space from the above conversion should be used to expand the sidewalk which is difficult to traverse during busy hours. Brick Bar, Nietzsche, Bend, and Hardware don't help with their patio's, but I doubt anything will be done about this.
- Convert College Street to 1-way going North, Mariner to 1-way going South, Park to 1-way North, and Peart St to 1-way South. The bottleneck created by (presumably) the selfishness of locals to avoid through-traffic creates a nightmare on Allen, and a dangerous environment for non-vehicle traffic.
- Increase bike rack access, hopefully incorporating an artistic theme for the area.
- Depending on some of the above decisions, implementing cobblestone may be beneficial, with elimination of curbs to improve bike/pedestrian travel.
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Extension of curbs at intersections of Delaware and Elmwood, though the latter may be less feasible due to the alignment. I find myself wondering if the Delaware intersection could be converted to a Roundabout considering its size (I can't recall where it becomes a 1-lane street).
- With Food Trucks clearly taking a permanent place in our city, it would be nice if there was a spot set up tailored to this business that would also generate revenue through a reservation system, although the amount of use it would see may not be worth it considering the limited real estate.
- Encouraging, perhaps commissioning, additional street art murals on non-historic buildings
How awesome Casey!!! I can't wait until next year, I have always wanted to learn snow boarding!! Looks like a lot of fun!
Oh, I figured it out...I added The Knife music track, which YouTube's scan picked up. Since the labels don't want you to easily listen to it, the vid is blocked on mobile.
I have no idea what the team behind Youtube's mobile unit is thinking when they make the decisions that they do...something along the lines of:
'Hey....let's ostracize the most rapidly growing user segment across the world'
very cool!! That looks so fun.
I couldn't watch on my phone - says "This video contains content from WMG, EMI, UMG and UMPG Publishing, one or more of whome have blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. Works fine on my laptop. Weird.
Was holding the phone in my hand, so mostly making an estimate as to where she was, with occasional glances her way. That's part of the reason I stopped filming at that point though, as I didn't want to risk wiping out and destroying my phone.
How does that work at the end where you turn around and are facing her instead of forwards.