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leadfoot9 t1_j65jku7 wrote

Airport Rail.

Reduction in excessively-wide car lanes in favor of literally anything else... [wider] sidewalks, bike lanes, rain gardens.

Better rail connections to other Eastern cities.

Reduced (and enforced) speed limits to 20 mph within the city (although the reduced-width lanes would largely accomplish this automatically).

Making the Wabash Tunnel bikes only and/or restoring pedestrian access through the Liberty Pubes.

Some separated bike paths that aren't just cannibalized rail rights-of-way meandering through the woods but actually more direct routes than the cars get, like in Europe.

Modernized rebirths of the Knoxville and Penn inclines.

Neutering the Bigelow Boulevard meme road by adding speed limits, adding more crossings, narrowing lanes, etc.

Moving 376 somewhere else.

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gldmj5 t1_j68p8vb wrote

>Moving 376 somewhere else.

For what purpose?

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leadfoot9 t1_j69h3sf wrote

Specifically, the segment along the Mon.

  • Reclamation of land for productive development.
  • Elimination of a massive, miles-long barrier that makes crossing the Mon even harder than it needs to be.
  • Reduction of noise pollution along the bike trail and around Mt. Washington (the sound carries across the water).
  • Elimination of hilariously dangerous blind urban on-ramps that highway "engineers" squeezed in wherever it looked like it would fit on their little 1:100 scale black-and-white 2D drawings.
  • Reduction in the number of unnecessary bridges to be inspected and maintained (elevated highways and ramps are bridges).

A comically expensive undertaking, to be sure. Hence its position at the bottom of the list. The more logical solution would be to have never put it there in the first place. Now it's gone all metastatic into the regional fabric.

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gldmj5 t1_j69ltzt wrote

So where would you move it to where traffic can get in, out of, and through the city?

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ballsonthewall t1_j6aesyo wrote

The southern beltway should eliminate most through traffic east-west

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