Since I reflected on road diets in my last post, let me share these photos from the recent Netherlands trip. My guess is that this road may once have had more auto lanes and went on a road diet at some point.
Since I reflected on road diets in my last post, let me share these photos from the recent Netherlands trip. My guess is that this road may once have had more auto lanes and went on a road diet at some point.
With this post I’m also experimenting with a different way to display photos from Flickr, so I may be tweaking a bit.
This street had a slip lane carved out of it. It was primarily used as a bicycle lane. Cars were ‘allowed’ to use it (including accessing parking), but they did not get priority.
This lane served the neighborhood retail very well.
One response to “Road Diet, Dutch Style?”
wow, such a simple yet different approach to traffic calming. the slip lanes pictured would be an amazing fit for the clashes on Hawthorne, Sandy and MLK between the neighborhoods who live there and the thousands of commuters who drive quickly and recklessly through them. if there isn’t enough viable room for a slip lane then those streets should at least have two travel lanes, a middle turn lane, and bike and parking lanes as discussed in the previous post. it’s unfortunate that these main streets (with thier small town style downtowns) have arterial highway status otherwise ‘calming’ or ‘dieting’ would be realistic alternatives. i know how hard it is to get anything done, especially drastic changes to this vehicle centered American mentality.