Kansas City 'Road Diet' Strategy: Even Worse Than Bike Lanes?!?

Here's the plan: 

Urban planners work to ruin Kansas City's boulevard system designed by city fathers that has been regarded as iconic throughout the Midwest in hopes of obstructing and slowing down traffic. 

This is a response to traffic death numbers that have increased during a pandemic era of almost zero traffic enforcement and so many urban core drivers who haven't garnered new tags since 2019.   

Let's not forget that dangerous sideshows are still a problem in and around downtown. 

And again . . . The solution is to crackdown hard on commuters which probably won't have much impact on so many drivers who openly defy traffic law and endanger locals. 

Sounds great . . . 

DO WE GET TO VOTE ON THIS?!?! OF COURSE NOT!!!

 Meanwhile . . . 

Our progressive newsie pals dutifully report this press release news with excitement. 

Check-it:

The Kansas City Council approved an ordinance in October to put those dangerous streets on “road diets,” reducing the number of lanes the next time they’re resurfaced. And soon, the city will update its street design guidelines to make safer, if slower, roads the default rather than the exception.

“There’s too much space on the roadway,” said Bobby Evans, a transportation planner at the Mid-America Regional Council. “People are driving too fast. If you correct the size of the roadway, it will make people drive more safely.”

Road diets, he said, are proven to reduce the number of serious car crashes by half.

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Kansas City plans to automatically remove lanes from its largest and most dangerous roads

Most of Kansas City's four-lane roads are too fast and too empty. The Kansas City Council decided to slim down a batch of 28 roads the next time they're repaved to make them safer.