Remixing East 52nd Street
Posted by Kevin Kastner in Bicycling, Neighborhoods, Pedestrian, Transit on Aug 30th, 2016 | 13 comments
The running center turn lane on East 52nd Street (and many other streets around town) is a monument to traffic engineering winning over everything else:
This configuration has bugged me for years. There is an unprotected bike lane, yes, but also a very narrow sidewalk with poles in the middle of it. I decided to see what else could be done with only 48 feet of right-of-way width, as shown below:
There’s a great tool for this task on the web called Streetmix. It enables citizens to imagine different street configurations. There were a number of constraints that I worked with:
10 foot travel lane...
