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- noun Plural form of
arterial .
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The commenter's point about arterials is spot on. please focus bike riding on NON arterials, there are tons of perfectly good side streets that go for 1 to 3 miles a block away from arterials, it's a natural to suggest bikes concentrate on those routes instead of on the artierials.
We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola 2010
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Finding the best routes has caused TomTom to build a real data base of arterials and how congested they are.
Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola 2010
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There's no turning problem "solved" by so-called "road diets" that left turn arrows on currently configured arterials wouldn't solve better, and illuminated raised crosswalks will be a lot better for pedestrians than standing in a two-way center turn lane ever could be.
Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola 2010
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Seattle imposed diets on several major transit arterials decades ago: North 45th Street, Broadway, and California Avenue SW.
Cascade Encourages Members to Send Rasmussen Tums for Nickerson “Indigestion” « PubliCola 2010
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How much would it cost to widen surface arterials in the same corridor. joshuadf
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Obvoisly the key to getting people to walk is putting roads on diets, that's why in NYC where everyone walks, they only have little two lane arterials.
Extra Fizz: 36th Dems Oppose Nickerson Bike Improvements « PubliCola 2010
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Superblocks such as the Seattle Center or most shopping malls concentrate traffic onto major arterials at the periphery.
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Other cities have very large areas of 6 to 12 story multifamily along all major arterials and allow and encourage towers of 20 stories to make mini downtowns at rail stations ..... we're still stuck in the 1950s era kind of thinking.
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People treat these arterials as highways, often going 50+mph. fatcat1111
“Walk Bike Ride” Plan Would Narrow Nickerson for Bikes « PubliCola 2010
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“There are huge lakes, steep hills, ship canals, and an overall dearth of flat land on which to build grids or arterials.”
Why Vancouver’s Transit System Has Seattle Beat « PubliCola 2010
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