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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://ww2.accessdevelopment.com/hubfs/Access_Consumer_Spend_Research_Study_2016.pdf

92% of shopping is done within 20 minutes of where someone lives.  Time not distance is the determining factor.

Increased congestion increases the amount of time a trip takes.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098013505883

4.5 minutes per trip of extra congestion is the tipping point for economic harm.[/quote]

From your citations:  "While higher ADT per freeway lane appears to slow productivity growth, there is no evidence of congestion-induced travel delay impeding productivity growth. Results suggest that the strict policy focus on travel time savings may be misplaced and, instead, better outlooks for managing congestion’s economic drag lie in prioritising the economically most important trips (perhaps through road pricing) or in providing alternative travel capacity to enable access despite congestion."

This is an argument for increasing public transit, PP. [/quote]

And this is also an argument for making local retail MORE walkable:  https://ww2.accessdevelopment.com/hubfs/Access_Consumer_Spend_Research_Study_2016.pdf

In fact it dovetails very nicely with the NYC experiement where making shopping blocks more pedestrian friendly increased revenues.  Earlier in this thread, someone was talking about how the Conn Ave traffic made it hard to get to Bread Furst - I think that also is a good example of why, if people prefer to shop very locally, improving pedestrian access makes sense.  [/quote]

Except Connecticut Ave is one of the major thoroughfares in and out of the city.  People have to take it.  It is what it is.  There are not alternative routes unless you want non-hyperlocal traffic in the neighborhoods.  Increasing congestion by 4 minutes causes economic harm.[/quote]

That is ... not actually what that research said.  Anyway, is your position that traffic cannot bear ANY safety modifications, at all, and that any degree of economic harm outweighs the safety of people using the road?  Like, pedestrian bump-outs, methods to force drives to turn more carefully, none of it is OK with you?  [/quote]

Prioritizing the most economically important routes for lessening congestion.  IE: 16th, Connecticut etc[/quote]

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