“The city urban planners pretend to be progressive by pushing road restrictions and "bike lanes." If one stands there watching the usage, it would found to be near zero. Bikes use the remaining traffic lanes while bike lanes remain unused.
Bike use and faux safety are excuses given and another is public transportation, but that has gotten worse over the three decades I've used it. It is very often dirty, filled with intoxicated (legally or otherwise) riders, and not equipped for those with packages or groceries. Timing/frequency of routes has also become an issue.
Closing more lanes to traffic is not harmful, only change for the sake of change, solves nothing, and only enables city planners to continue alleging to do something for the city other than waste out money. Stop plans to close the Strip District lanes and send the message back to City Hall that the real change needed is requiring leaders to have a clue before announcing or trying implement poorly thought through projects.”
