For Star subscribers: Tucson officials sold the idea of a 'road diet' for East Fifth Street in midtown — reducing traffic lanes and improving walkability. Now they're backing away from this classic opportunity.
Tim Steller Drive down East Fifth Street at the wrong time of day and you'll feel that uncomfortable closeness.
People are also reading… The number of travel lanes each direction would go down from two to one, but there would be a left turn lane for the whole stretch, rather than just at the busiest intersections. There would also be bike lanes on each edge of the road,"buffered" by two feet from the traffic, and sidewalks for the whole length.
"Traffic operations were going to be challenging at signalized intersections, especially West of Country Club," Credio said, citing the study's conclusions."Basically, if you’re waiting to pull onto — this was Sixth Street in particular — in some cases you might have to wait up to 10 minutes to find a gap."Among other ideas, the city ought to consider reworking the signals at some of the intersections, adding left-turn arrows and making other changes, he said.
"They did a presentation, and basically the information provided indicated that traffic was way down on 5th Street/6th Street and it would be feasible to do," she said."They were positive about it." Aim for 'complete street'Now, you can't fault a new director for department actions that took place before he ran the place. But there is a principle at stake — the idea of complete streets enshrined in the city's ordinance — and some things that don't sit right.
If you listen to Credio and read the Kittelson report, you'll find that most of the projected problems with road dieting occur between Country Club and Campbell. So, rather than getting bogged down in the report, one can easily look at it and conclude: Let's end the road diet at Country Club.
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