Comments on: Wiki Wednesday: Getting Streets in Shape With Road Diets http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/04/15/wiki-wednesday-getting-streets-in-shape-with-road-diets/ Covering San Francisco's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mike http://sf.streetsblog.org/2009/04/15/wiki-wednesday-getting-streets-in-shape-with-road-diets/comment-page-1/#comment-4795 mike Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:25:30 +0000 http://sf.streetsblog.org/?p=1951#comment-4795 Road diets are a great way to quickly improve a street, esp for cyclists and pedestrians. For the same cost of a typical sidewalk bulb out, you can re-stripe a mile of street. San Francisco has done 30 of these types of projects, with many more to come. I haven't yet heard of another city in N America (or anywhere, for that matter) that has done more than SF. Road diets are a great way to quickly improve a street, esp for cyclists and pedestrians. For the same cost of a typical sidewalk bulb out, you can re-stripe a mile of street.

San Francisco has done 30 of these types of projects, with many more to come. I haven’t yet heard of another city in N America (or anywhere, for that matter) that has done more than SF.

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