Social Justice said: Yeah, I think a few roads around the core need to be converted to two way. 11th ave, 12th ave are the most glaring ones. Click to expand...

The thing I always found strange about 11th and 12th is that the city's own report to say it might be a good idea to convert them back was published about 18 years ago and nothing happened. Various councillors have discussed it and been in favour of it over the years yet nothing seems to ever change with the downtown road network (exception being 1st Street complete street redo, the cycletrack infrastructure, and pro-throughput-all-the-time lane reversal projects like the recent stuff in the west end). Relatively minor changes for 20 years of rapid city growth and significant densification.Weirder still is plenty of one-way remnants were clearly over-built decades ago with no plan to change. Perhaps they were built to anticipate a highway network that never came to fruition, but on opening day anyone could have told you the weird 4 or 5 lane wide one-way ends of Macleod Trail by the Bow River will never possibly be used to "capacity" and should have been half or as quarter as wide. 4th Street's transition between the Beltline and Downtown is the same; there is no combination of traffic flows coming from the south through the railway underpass that will ever fill the 4 lanes of northbound traffic to capacity. They literally can't: there isn't enough lanes to plug into 4th from 12th, 11th or 10th so that the 4 or 5 lane one-way northbound 4th Street could ever be the bottleneck.There is some curious, out-of-date and frustratingly "black-box" decisions that have been - and continue to be - made regarding our one-way system. It's time for a rethink. Hell, the Route 3 would shave like 5 minutes per run southbound if it didn't have to go over to 5th Street to turn south and went down 4th Street instead. Plus this new building could get a southbound stop too