Walking home from work, I've noticed that 10th (heading west) and 11th Avenues can often be very congested from around 4:40 to 5:15 (or later) in the evening. Traffic on 11th Ave gets very congested and crawls quite slowly, perhaps due to poorly timed traffic lights all the way to 14th Street.
I fail to see how turning 11th into a two-way street will reduce or alleviate congestion. On the contrary, I think that it would make it much worse.
Additionally, I wonder if traffic congestion would be increased as people try to turn into parking lots that, as far as I can tell, appear to be designed based on the existence of 1-way roads (i.e., Safeway's, Co-Op's, etc).
All-in-all, I'd say that the proposal is a solution in search of a problem.
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