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Originally Posted by MadhattersLT
The traffic doesn’t go away it funnels onto smaller side streets which then in turn back up. And you pushing public transportation is ridiculous, you live in a city where people have to commute. Some use it others don’t. Public transportation is not a reality for me and a lot of others. Traffic on roads where they take away lanes is absolutely terrible.
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LOL about the public transportation comment. I'm not even gonna address that other than to say we live in a city and we're not going to design our infrastructure to move private vehicles across the city as fast as possible.
From what I understand 34th street to the river wasn't included in the Chestnut street redesign. (See the project proposal here:
https://www.phila.gov/media/20221114...s_11.10.22.pdf) so your worries about that design being repeated on Walnut don't make much sense to me. Additionally, as you can see from the project proposal no travel lanes are even being removed. They're just removing the dedicated turn lane. I don't really understand your concern about drivers using the other roads in the area either. Why do we care? If you want to get to CC from UCity, you're using Chestnut, Market, or JFK. This isn't relevant here because, as I said, they're not removing any travel lanes, but reducing the number of lanes, and narrowing those lanes, slows down traffic in the remaining lanes. Drivers move slower when they have to pay attention. Traffic studies show this time and time again. The new lane configuration is objectively safer for drivers and pedestrians. As I said, the city's traffic data shows that.