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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True. If they can't fund the design that was approved in October with a service entry on 36th, Reno Rd. will be dealing with trash and delivery trucks turning in and backing out all day long for the rest of your lives.

A few teacher's coming and going twice a day wouldn't be horrible, but a service entry on Reno would be awful.[/quote]

Reno is like a polluted river where, as it flows down, the stuff just gets worse.  "Down river" in Cleveland Park, people are thinking about how to narrow 34th St. (Reno south) to deter traffic and increase safety for pedestrians, especially kids walking to Eaton (which is just 30 feet from this busy roadway).[/quote]

As is Murch. 3 kids have been hit by cars within 2 blocks of Murch. Numerous car accidents too.[/quote]

Part of the problem is the configuration of Reno/34th between Fessenden and Garfield Streets, where there is the extended median/turn lane for several miles.  (There are passing lanes between Van Ness and Tilden.)  Some traffic engineers have said that the extended turn lane, instead of enhancing safety, reduces safety by increasing vehicle speed.  Drivers perceive the lane as a median and increase their speed for a faster road.  Drivers don't have to slow down or stop for turning vehicles.  Instead of a parking lane to separate a travel lane from the sidewalk, the high-speed travel lanes are moved to the side adjacent to the sidewalks, which in many places don't even have a tree box buffer.

By contrast, Reno north of Fessenden and 34th south of Garfield don't have the turn lanes.  There is parking on one or both sides of the street.  Through traffic moves well, but from observation at a calmer speed.  In effect, the no-turn lane configuration calms traffic.  With all the kids walking along the corridor, it makes sense IMO to re-paint Reno more like north of Fessenden, possible with turn lanes only at the most major cross routes (like Nebraska).[/quote]

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