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Originally Posted by SebC
I'd like to see a traffic study for this. The question in my mind is: "How much more traffic is on Centre Street going accross the bridge compared to at 24th Ave?" Because if most of the traffic is going to be bottlenecked by lane reductions north of 16th anyways, then without doing a full cut-and-cover on C St there may not be much difference in terms of traffic impacts between option A and option D.
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I try to avoid that area during rush hour, but based on my own observation during non-peak times, traffic is significantly lighter north of 16th Ave than it is south of 16th, and lighter still north of 20th Ave. The fact that the lane reversals are only in effect south of 20th would also seem to bear that out.
Right now, during peak times, there are three lanes of traffic going in the heavy direction south of 20th Ave. If they run the Train across the Centre Street Bridge, there would only be able to be one narrow lane of traffic in each direction between 3rd Ave S and 9th Ave N.
Also, Centre Street is a bit wider north of 20th Ave. The buildings are usually a little further back from the street; most of the businesses have their own off-street parking; and there's usually a decent boulevard to buffer between the sidewalk and the street. If they need to widen the street a bit to better accommodate the train and vehicles, they have more options north of 20th.