Wednesday, January 14, 2015

"All the streets seem to be one way around the hotel making it awkward to get in and out."

In his New Albany Downtown Street Network Proposal, Jeff Speck writes:

The current one-way configuration provides the advantage of allowing drivers to ride a wave of green lights through downtown and to take left turns unimpeded by oncoming traffic. It provides the disadvantages of increasing danger to pedestrians and cyclists, undermining retail viability, lengthening trips, and confusing visitors. 

The latter ("confusing visitors") is not first on the list of reasons to ditch our counter-productive one-way streets. However, as these comments on ratings aggregators illustrate, visitors feel the pain, too. Thanks to B for these quotes.

First, at Yelp.

This hotel met all the needs my husband and I had on a long weekend to Louisville. Very close to highway, a little confusing area because of all the one way streets but we managed -- Holiday Inn Express (now Best Western Plus) review

Then at Trip Advisor.

BTW watch out for all of the one way streets in this little town. All the streets seem to be one way around the hotel making it awkward to get in and out. This is just something to know about the area. We ended up going the wrong way while trying to get back into the back parking lot and when we came out the next day, waited while someone else tried to get off of one way going the wrong way onto another one way still going the wrong way. I think the signs are not very prominent and the on off ramps are also awkward -- BEST WESTERN PLUS West I-64 review 

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