re: The city of BR needs us to weigh in about Government Street.

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Rip them out and go back to 4 lanes

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That's not going to happen.

Honestly I'd have avoided the medians entirely and just made a two lane minor artery with street parking on both side of the road except in areas that already have a lot of parking, where I'd go with a 3 lane format with a center turn lane. I wouldn't allow left turns except in turn lanes. And no useless bike lanes that are never used.

If they did it my way, the pedestrians they are trying to attract would have a line of parked cars between them and traffic. And retail spaces without parking lots wouldn't be totally useless. If they were hell bent on expensive landscaping, they could sacrifice a few street parking spot for tree islands where the business owners were okay with them.

Their idea was good, but the execution was stupid. Now they have a center median with landscaping that has to be maintained, and traffic still buzzes pretty close by the sidewalk and the front doors of a lot of businesses.