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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The term “road diet” is such PR BS.[/b]

“Road Chokehold” is more appropriate.[/quote]

I agree. I prefer "safer streets for everyone."[/quote]

Sanctimonious Street is quite unsafe [/quote]

I'll wait for the actual data. This ain't it.[/quote]

I prefer experience over data.   Data can be manipulated as was done throughout the process.  I experience the delays on both Seminary and Janneys Lane daily.   They were not there before the road diet.  To avoid them, I take Howard to Braddock and Quaker back to Trinity, which is fast becoming a cut through.   Wait until those rich people start complaining.[/quote]

+ infinity. actual experience is the data motherload.  [/quote]

anecdotes are not data. The anecdotes already conflict.  [/quote]

What is the conflicting anecdote?

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People I know (both option 3 supporters and neutrals) saying the road is fine almost all the time, even most rush hours.

Did you see the NBC4 piece last night?  With the traffic flowing smoothly in the background as an opponent decried massive traffic jams?[/quote]

It's not that the traffic flows smoothly but how long it takes to get from point A to point B.  Before you could pass the car in the right lane going 15 miles an hour,  now there is no place to go but to follow the car.  [/quote]

[i]Before you could pass the car in the right lane going 25 miles an hour,  now there is no place to go but to follow the car. [/i]

Fixed that for you.   The video, and what  people who live there have told me, is that now the traffic flows smoothly at 25MPH.  I am sure that is frustrating for people who regularly exceeded the 25MPH limit there.  But reducing speeds in excess of the limit was always the idea of this.  Thats evidence the project has succeeded. [/quote]
Did you also do the stats  for the bike lobby?  You conveniently changed the speed I stated from 15 mph to 25 mph to fit your narrative that I was exceeding the speed limit.  There are 17 houses that face or partially face that stretch of Seminary Road. Have you collected data from each of them showing that traffic is now consistently moving at 25 miles per hour?   If so, please post the details. [/quote]

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