Eastside Bike Boulevards - 30% Draft Design Feedback

The commenter is kinda right. ROADS are generally for cars, but streets are NOT supposed to be for cars...you can include cars, but they are not priority.
Unfortunately, most of our travelways try to combine these two things, whic is why they don't do either function well. We mostlyu have what Storng Towns woudl call "Stroads":
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I'm not sure how auto races vs. bike races connects to city wealth though.

Slow moving cars can navigate narrow lanes and make turns. Traveling fast is not mandatory...and certainly not more important than safety or allowing for other travel options. If a car has to travel more slowly so that people can choose to walk, bike, or use transit, than that's perfectly ok.

Just like to add thoughts on the concept of riding on "busy streets". I'd like the streets to more pleasant and safe feeling also, but, unfortunately, all our shopping, doctor's offices, employers, etc. etc. are located on our "busy streets". I wish our city wasn't designed this way, but the streets we need to use also have high speed traffic. If we're going to design a helpful bike network, it needs to access these places too...we just need to slow down the car traffic that'll be. there too. We need to do that anyway...maybe building our the bike infrastructure can help slow down, or even minimize the need for, the heavy vehicle traffic...two birds with one stone?

Couldn't disagree more with this comment. We need to concentrate on pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure FOR A WHILE because we've neglected it for sooo long and are now VERY far behind.
Bollards protect people outside of cars, which is all we need to be concerned with. If cars travel slowly...as they should...they have nothing to fear.
If a driver is not paying attention enough to figure out lanes and paint, they may not being paying attention enough in general.
Tucson is NOT bike friendly..never has been. If you need proof, pay attention to the bike death memorials that plaster our city.
Good street design is not euro-centric or any foreign country-centric. We Americans are perfectly capable of designing just as well as any other country and, in fact, did just that until a handful of decades ago.
Homelessness is a problem though...it has nothing to do with bicycle infrastructure, but it is a problem we need to address differently than we do now.

Couldn't disagree more with this comment. Pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure is much cheaper to build and maintain than heavy vehicle infrastructure. With the way we sprawled and all the streets we've already built, if we tried to fix all the heavy vehicle infrastructure FIRST, we'd never catch up and never get around to anything else. We need to concentrate on pedestrian, bike, and transit infrastructure FOR A WHILE because we've neglected it for sooo long and are now VERY far behind.
I don't disagree with the commenter that we have a lot of potholes, etc...streets that need repair, but we've done that to ourselves by the way we've sprawled, built more and more roads, pipes, etc that we were never gonna be able to keep up with. I fear much of what we built will simply NOT be able to be maintained. If we continue to build NEW infrastructure instead of filling in the space we have to help contribute to paying for what we already have, that NEW infrastructure NEEDS to pedestrian, bike, and transit focused infrastructure because it's less of a financial burden long term.