Pitch Weekly's major feature on KC's efforts to implement Road Diets & other Complete Streets elements | The Pitch

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Road diets are pretty simple. They require little more than planning and paint. They target wide streets, where vehicle traffic can be channeled into fewer lanes in order to adapt other parts of the road for parking, bicycle lanes and pedestrian walkways. The concept makes streets safer for drivers, bike riders and those on foot.

Grand Boulevard, a perfect candidate for a road diet, is where city planners have intended to realign five lanes to three, for traffic from the River Market to Crown Center. Under this scenario, vehicles would travel each way in one lane, with a center lane reserved for left-turning traffic. The two excess lanes would be used for on-street parking, wider sidewalks and bicycle lanes.

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MoBikeFed comment: Re-using existing road and street space in a smarter way, to make city roads safer and more inviting for all users, including people who walk, bicycle, and use transit, is one of the simplest and most cost-effective solutions that is available to Missouri communities.

Let's hope the Kansas City road diet effort--off to a good if slow start--picks up momentum and is implemented by other communities across Missouri.