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Originally Posted by nomarandlee
Well even the Champs has traffic, even though they plan to put it on a massive road diet in the near future it will still have traffic.
I'd imagine it's rather impractical to completely close off Michigan into a ped mall but some street calming, road diets and bus lanes maybe could be done? I'd agree that trying to set up trying to maximize the street to cafe/restaurant life may be the best bet.
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Yeah, not close it off to car traffic but take up more of the street and add in a good buffer of trees (and something 'softer' like crushed granite rather than concrete or asphalt). Champs has maybe a 2:3:2 ratio of pedestrian to car traffic allotment of its width (just looking at it from above in Google maps satellite view).