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It's high time DC start re-thinking it's past policy of narrowing sidewalks for more lanes of traffic and off-peak parking. U Street is a big example: It was narrowed a lot in anticipation of the planned freeway there and has never gone back. I'm not sure the new streetscape there will help much more than Adams-Morgan's did.

As a city we've got to make up our minds that sidewalks and rapid transit will be encouraged by reversing the past street widenings. We need to return to wide easily-walkable sidewalks and also plan dedicated right-of-way bus/streetcar lanes. Whatever loss of small amounts of street parking on commercial streets won't matter much. Our policy of loading businesses from loading zones on the streets may be more difficult but isn't impossible to remedy, maybe with bulb-ins on each block or regulated alley deliveries.

It's worth the effort.

by Tom Coumaris on Jul 19, 2012 4:18 pm • link • report

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