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Originally Posted by Arsenal14
Speaking of signal synchronization and pedestrian priority - is there any way to get the signals at 10th, 11th, 12th Avenues timed so it's possible to walk at a somewhat normal pace and not have to stop at every intersection? Right now those three are timed pretty well for vehicles, but are terrible for pedestrians.
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This is a growing issue that comes up more and more often as the population of the community (and surrounding communities) grows and as many of those people are walking.
I'm on the transportation committee in Beltline and we haven't looked into this deeply recently but I hope to soon after getting through some of the other items we've been dealing with.
In a cursory way though, I'm not sure how much more can be done without making some larger, more far-reaching changes such as reverting to 2-way operation of 11th and 12th Avenue (which may actually happen, it has been proposed).
Like Bunk said, optimizing for different travel speeds of various modes is tricky, and the fact that east-west blocks are much larger than north-south blocks comes into play as well.