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bmore t1_j6zw1s3 wrote

Reply to comment by munchnerk in Roadway will remain open at base of the Roland Water Tower by locker1313

Try doing it in a wheelchair and I think you'll see the difference between having that cut through as access or trying to navigate to the intersections drivers are complaining are too far to drive and too dangerous to cross.

It's simply not safe as a shared street in present condition.

And there's no erasure here. Maybe look at the census.

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munchnerk t1_j6zx8ts wrote

Yeah, ever heard of Heathbrook? If you look at the census info, the Heathbrook subneighborhood is where all the white people live (on Roland Heights and Wood Heights). Evans Chapel is the street with the access problems. That's the original parcel passed down by Grandison Hoes. That's where all the Black folks still live, and Hoes Heights as a historic neighborhood is still predominantly Black. The Census has awesome information if you don't try to wield it like a sledgehammer.

The closed street was entirely blocked with concrete (then plastic) barricades. It's a coarsely paved and then-unmaintained road that wasn't designed or suited for folks in a wheelchair. The opened street is moving forward with a park redesign to improve pedestrian access and make it safer. I'm sure you've also noticed the extensive road-diet changes on 41st which, as a pedestrian resident, have genuinely made it safer to move around here without a car. It is actually better to get in and out of the neighborhood on foot than it was before, and that has fuck all to do with the road around the tower.

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bmore t1_j6zy0qu wrote

The traffic calming is great. Sucks neighbors have been advocating to get it ripped out.

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