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Originally Posted by Draftsman
The easiest way to get around this, is what the City has been doing on many busy, main streets (ie: Broad Street), which is eliminating the centre boulevard altogether. This gets rid of the ugly, chipped concrete, and would make it easier for street plowing/cleaning. In doing so, they could widen the sidewalks and/or curbs a bit and perhaps add landscaping on the sides (at least more than what little bit we have now). It also aids emergency vehicles to get through during heavy traffic (remember those 15 minutes pre-covid?)
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I definitely disagree with this part. Aesthetically, the boulevards are very important. The wide open boulevard-less streets are so less appealing. Additionally, they are a traffic nightmare for streets with retail/office. Cars constantly sit and block traffic as they try to make illegal left turns across the yellow lines. Happy to hear they're brining one block back of median on Albert St.
I've always wondered why the graders couldn't have a hard rubber edge to help prevent the damage to concrete. If course additional training and time could help reduce the damage.