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Cities Switching Back One-Way Streets To Two-Way

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Richard Layman
23 December 2006 - 1:00pm

To make downtown more livable, cities across the nation are converting one-way streets to two-way streets.

"Danville is one of hundreds of cities — from Berkeley, Calif., to Charleston, S.C. — switching one-way streets to two-way to improve commerce downtown, according to the American Planning Association in Chicago. The trend got rolling in the early 1990s and has expanded this year to bigger cities such as Miami, Dallas and Minneapolis. It's part of the reinvention of former industrial cities, which are converting empty factories into loft housing and trying to convince suburbanites that downtowns are livable."

Full Story: Many cities changing one-way streets back
Source: USA Today, December 21, 2006
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A New Environmental Advocacy Group

Submitted by Charles Siegel on Sat, 12/23/2006 - 17:59.

I won't comment on this statement in this article:

"They drive less efficiently on two-way streets, according to the Thoreau Institute, an environmental advocacy group in Oregon. The slower stop-and-go traffic means cars pollute more, the institute says."

Charles Siegel

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