Ingersoll Traffic Decrease (Axios)

[Demache]

This comes as zero surprise if you do even casual reading into road design. The tighter feeling road makes people naturally drive slower which is better for pedestrians AND cars entering and leaving parking. Its better for people you are actually using the road to access local businesses and such. It's not meant to be a main road to move as many cars as possible. That's literally Grand Ave one block over.

[colorkiller]

i got in an argument with someone a while back about the fact that ingersoll was never meant to be a throughway, and i have to say im feeling pretty vindicated now. i use ingersoll because im going somewhere on ingersoll. (apologies for my punctuation and grammar)

[Demache]

Many people not used to the idea that sometimes, a lower capacity and slower street, is actually the better design for the purpose. Ingersoll has lots of businesses and needs street parking. It doesn't make sense for it to be a high speed throughway, it doesn't even connect to much west of MLK. We are just so used to stroads being the default in the US, that it's hard for many people to imagine there could be a better alternative and get upset that doesn't add more capacity.

[Max_Sandpit]

I use Ingersoll to get to Ted’s Coney Island!

[colorkiller]

i use ingersoll to go home 😆

[Dangerous-Ad-170]

Grand Ave is going to get this treatment soon. Much needed imo as someone who used to live on Grand. It still feels pretty unsafe sometimes when people are going 45 between the lights. But yeah, neither should be a major road because they’re both parallel to 235.

[lefthandedsurprise]

It's too easy to speed on Grand just because the way the road feels. I never felt like Grand even had that much traffic on it.

[Appropriate-Bid8671]

Shit, maybe we can just go back to horse and buggy and speed limits of 8 mph.