Two-way street conversions were a full-bore campaign promise back in 2007, but after four years of the third England administration, how many of New Albany street's had been converted to two-way traffic? That'd be none, and perhaps part of the reason was the desperate opposition on the part of community pillars filled with old-fashioned Kool-Aid, but not a dollop of reasoned contemporary urban thought.Merchant Mixer notes (2): Empty storefronts, Harvest Homecoming and Bob Caesar's all-way street confusion.
Amazed, I wrote at the time:
I realized (yet again) how so many of the older generation of merchants sincerely believes that whatever works out yonder in the soulless exurb should be implemented downtown, whereas the way I see it is that whatever can be done to create the polar opposite atmosphere downtown – including people-friendly, slower-moving traffic to accommodate humanity, and alternative modes of transportation apart from the automobile – should be the desired goal.
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