Harrisburg: Another train/traffic adventure only METRO could love
KTRK-13 ran a news blurb last week indicating that METRO rail work on the East End had begun.
The blurb did not report that METRO and the City will be closing 28 of 40 intersecting lanes.
The blurb did not report that engineers recommend such lane closures because at-grade rail in busy traffic corridors with numerous intersections creates unsafe conditions.
The blurb also did not report that one of the city's ostensibly technocratic/analytical departments -- politicized in various ways under former Mayor Bill White -- has indicated that some neighborhood traffic conditions caused by the above will just have to be mitigated after construction of the light rail system (a contrast with the near-hysterical clampdown on the Ashby High Rise developers because various constituents insisted the former mayor do something).
All of those tidbits have to be teased out of various traffic/design analysis documents passed along by Paul Magaziner and posted here.
Not to worry, though -- because David Wolff says so!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 04/01/10 07:46 PM | Print |
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