Sentences with phrase «road diet»

Creighton Manning is the lead engineer on the Madison Avenue road diet and Rosenblum Development was the developer of 17 Chapel St., where condominium units currently are being investigated for improper tax breaks.

One step into the Not Just Fruit market is a good introduction to the Great Ocean Road diet.

John has been a vocal opponent of the East Tremont Avenue «road diet» that took away a lane of traffic on each side of the vital thoroughfare which added needless traffic and created longer commutes for residents.

Officials cited studies showing a «road diet» leads to fewer crashes, reduced speeds and other benefits.

Snot - slick muddy roads are definitely part of our Trailhawk's off - road diet.

For instance, you could build a model of the street you live on, add a protected bike lane, a bike rack, or see how a road diet might affect things.

In 2009, Mayor Nutter — known derisively in some circles as «Mayor Bike Lane» — oversaw a road diet on Spruce and Pine streets that gave over a lane of car traffic to bike lanes.

Update: A street in Oakland recently underwent a road diet: two of five lanes were converted into protected bike lanes.

One Reason It Makes The Cut A resurgent grassroots bike advocacy effort overcame fervent opposition and helped win approval of a road diet (replacing car lanes with bike lanes) on South Willamette Street, making a direct cycling route to downtown safer.

In fact, when a «road diet» was applied to a few intersections, motorists organized a recall campaign and got the improvements pulled out.

They may also be related to «road diets» that slim roads enough that they no longer encourage drivers to speed dangerously along them and, especially, around corners.

What we really need are road diets, that naturally slow people down; they know what to do, but don't want to.

Road diets would reduce this a lot just by slowing them down, but so would a breath alcohol ignition interlock device like those required for some convicted of drunk driving.