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Traffic
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Americans. Roads had been widened Snd straightened to accommodate cars and trucks. This created barriers to village life as the streets became threatening to pedestrians and bicyclists. Bypasses were then put in to move traffic around the towns, but money became the limiting factor. Then European countries instituted traffic calming measures instead, especially in Denmark and the Netherlands. The towns and villages were friendlier to shopowners and pedestrians particularly the elderly and children, Mr. Lockwood said.
In North America traffic calming has been used in Canada and in the United States in urban areas. The contract to develop a plan for the U.S. 50 corridor is a first for a rural area in the United States, Mr. Lockwood said.
He suggested community members develop similar plans for the villages along U.S. 522.
He knows that getting VDOT approval for such plans will not be easy. Highway engineers like to limit debate to issues of capacity, speed and travel time; other issues of access, privacy and equity are left out, he said. Highway engineers say things like “improvements are required to enhance the level of service to meet the forecasted traffic demand,” he said. “There’s no real demand for traffic. The level of service is defined as how well cars and trucks are accommodated, not peace in our homes. We need to expand the debate.”
Increasing highway capacity leads to more development which then requires more highway capacity, he said. “Do we want to accommodate
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