Abstract
TRAFFIC SAFETY is often counterintuitive. Many people assume that multilane one-way streets are safer than two-way, because you have to look in only one direction to cross, and there are fewer chances for head-on collisions. The problem with this thinking was summed up in a Traverse City, MI, editorial of 1967, asserting that “one way traffic made for a faster, safer flow of vehicles in the downtown area.154.
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Traverse City Record Eagle (MI), Editorial (February, 2, 1967).
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William Riggs and John Gilderbloom, “Two-Way Street Conversion Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville,” Journal of Planning Education and Research (July 15, 2015), http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0739456X15593147.
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Ibid.
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Speck, J. (2018). Revert Multilane One-ways to Two-way for Safety. In: Walkable City Rules. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-899-2_39
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