[Ebbc-Talk] One-Way Streets: Do Humans Really Think?!

It's really not rocket science. If there are no one-way streets, one 
can always get where one wants to go via the shortest route, saving 
gas and reducing accidents and global warming (assuming that you are 
one of those dinosaurs still using motor vehicles). Once you 
introduce one-way streets, you will often have to drive farther than 
the shortest route. For a simple example, say you are at one end of a 
one-way street and want to get to somewhere else on that street.

While we are on the subject of traffic, have you noticed how many 
residents have eliminated their off-street parking space, and forced 
the city to provide them on-street parking at a ridiculously low 
below-market price? On-street parking -- at least on arterials -- 
should be eliminated. Instead, those lanes should be for the 
exclusive use of bicyclists and emergency vehicles. That would 
provide bicyclists a safe place to ride, and provide ambulances a way 
to get through when the traffic lanes are full of cars.

Then we could solve the homelessness problem by using the parking 
lane on non-arterials for old cars that no longer run, to be used as 
housing for the homeless. They could have a safe, dry place to sleep 
and lock up their belongings.

There! The world's major problems solved in only three paragraphs! 
Now get to work!

-- 

I am working on creating wildlife habitat that is off-limits to 
humans ("pure habitat").
Want to help? (I spent the previous 8 years fighting auto dependence 
and road construction.)

Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you 
are fond of!

http://mjvande.nfshost.com

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