United States
There are perhaps over 20,000 road diets in the United States, with another 500-1,000 being conducted each year.
The city in North America with the greatest number of road diets (over 50) is San Francisco, with 4 to 6 road diets added each year. The city with the greatest number of road diets, per capita, is Hartford, Connecticut (12). Retail merchants in Seattle are now some of the strongest proponents for these projects, since reduced travel speeds allow for easier and safer parking, improve store access and boost overall walking and livability conditions in neighborhoods, all of which lead to improved commerce.
Palo Alto, California has studied reducing the number of vehicle travel lanes to reduce traffic impacts on some of its busiest streets since adopting a new Comprehensive Plan in 1998. Design plans were made to reduce the total number of travel lanes from four to two on Embarcadero Rd and Middlefield Rd in the early 2000s, but were never brought to the city council for approval. Lane reductions were approved and then implemented on Charleston Rd in 2006, Arastadero Rd in 2010, and Deer Creek Rd in 2011.
The city of Seattle has implemented Road Diets over the past few years, and was able to boost its ranking from 6th to 2nd highest traffic rates in the US.
Read more about this topic: Road Diet
Famous quotes related to united states:
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can’t make that kind of use of the office.... I can’t do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)