A place my wife feels comfortable getting around without a car
We live 1.5 miles away from three grocery stores, a Target, Home Depot, multiple coffee shops, and a couple restaurants, among other commercial locations. My wife is still terrified of walking or riding her bike to any of these places because Power Road is so wide and the traffic on all the streets around drive so fast. Motorists fail to stop at stop signs and consistently stop INSIDE the crosswalks (if they even do stop... typically they roll through if they're turning) at stop lights. We need to re-design the streets so the lanes aren't the same width as freeway lanes, right-size the streets and make them more friendly at the pedestrian scale, change the engineering of our street corners so cars are forced to slow down to make a right turn (by making them right angles instead of 25' radii). After we get to the store, we have to traverse 9 acres of vacant parking lot with cars driving 30 mph - parking minimums are obsolete and setbacks are far, far, far to deep. These are changes that need to be made in EVERY neighborhood, not just the central city. The suburban model our city was built upon is dead.
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Anthony Avery commented
Change last sentence: *The automobile-dominant suburban model our city was built upon is dead.