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Old Posted May 9, 2009, 8:11 AM
GTviajero81 GTviajero81 is offline
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As someone who walks this area of W Peachtree daily (10th-5th streets) I appreciate more and more each day what is happening. I truly believe that turning W Peachtree into a two-way will bring more people to the area. On the flip-side it would be just as good to allow unfettered parking along the street. Then those who are patronising the restaurants and hotels in the area would feel free to park their vehicles which, in turn, makes pedestrians feel safer and more prone to walking along the sidewalks thereby increasing street presence. A two-way road is great but I truly believe that W Peachtree is too small for that. Ideally, parking on both sides of the street with two lanes in each direction would be most awesome. But since our roads in Atlanta are technically quite small we can not do this. The ultimate answer would be to two-way the entire length and then have parking on both sides, but that would slow down the driving speeds to the point of creating gridlock in Midtown.
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