Friday, May 15, 2015

Read this and you'll never look at Dixie Highway the same way

Imagine walking or driving down THIS Dixie Highway:
Image from the article in Walkable West Palm Beach by Baron Haussmann.
From the Walkable West Palm Beach blog is this about the South Dixie Highway "Road Diet": 
On Saturday March 28 the Treasure Coast Planning Council held a public design workshop for the section of South Dixie Highway from Albemarle Road north to Okeechobee Blvd. On everyone’s mind was a road diet for this section of South Dixie Highway. The default road diet in these situations is to convert the existing four lane section to a three lane section with parallel parking on both sides. This is a tried and true method and it would be a fantastic improvement.
A video from the blog: