MAGA Scorns 'Road Diets' Embraced By Kansas City Planners

Federal standards have now shifted away from KCMO policy of cutting back on streets.

Here's a peek at the dichotomy . . . 

Removing lanes has been a tool numerous cities have used for years to calm traffic, despite resistance from some Republican governors. President Donald Trump's administration doesn't like it either.

Federal transportation officials once heralded road diets for cutting crashes by 19% to 47%, but criteria for an upcoming round of road safety grants say projects aimed at “reducing lane capacity” should be considered “less favorably," the administration said . . .

Road diets are now an almost automatic part of the process in Kansas City whenever a street is up for repaving. For years, federal guidelines said lane reductions were usually appropriate on roads carrying fewer than 25,000 vehicles a day. Most of the city's four-lane roads don't meet that threshold.

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

Trump administration reverses long-held guidance on 'road diets' for traffic safety