BIKE: Mostly Well-Done AusChron Article on SCB (Bury the Hatchet)

[Mike Dahmus]

On 11:46 PM 1/14/2005 -0600, Stuart Werbner wrote:
>Why push for a solution that relies on active enforcement, pisses off the 
>residents,
>doesn't reduce speeding, and doesn't otherwise improve safety. I believe the
>biggest problem with SCB is its width and its perceived width -- this 
>encourages
>speeding and passing, and the thought in the back of many a mind that it 
>might make
>a nice minor arterial someday


It WAS a minor arterial, up till about 1999 or 2000, when the neighborhood 
successfully got it reclassified as a collector. It SHOULD be a minor 
arterial; it meets most of the metrics for one. The neighborhood's 
successful reclassification was step one in the campaign of misinformation 
that resulted in the Shoal Creek Debacle. (now that it was officially 
classified a "residential collector", most of them just called it a 
"residential street" which misleads people into thinking that its primary 
purpose was for property access for the residents of the street - when in 
fact "residential street" as an official classification is a level or two 
further down the totem pole).


Mike Dahmus
mdahmus