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Cities across North America model successful Missoula’s Higgins St. future road diet.
May 27, 2023 /
And while some “rabble rousers” continued to denigrate the Kingsport, Tennessee project after its completion, Carder said the outcomes have been overwhelmingly positive.
Travel times increased less than 5%. Vehicular speeds went down three to four miles per hour. Total crashes decreased around 10% and, most significant to Carder, the number of severe crashes fell approximately 50%.
“My favorite summary” said Carder, “is a comment from a friend, who is a planner that does not live in Kingsport but visited both before and after. He visited after the road diet was complete, and he told me ‘it feels like a downtown now.’”
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