As a "get to the store" kind of guy these are the facts that have to be dealt with by officials
Many of the highways and streets such as Morse, Rio Grande, Delmar, etc in TV due to increases in traffic along with trying to serve the safety needs of auto and cart drivers, and bicyclists have exacerbated these already poorly designed highways. There simply is not enough room and any movement and in areas such as at the intersection of Morse and Rio Grande too many distractions, one way or another this spells danger. This is complicated by the fact that we have people from all over the world, many of them seasonal residents that are use to driving conditions/situation in their home states/countries Example in many metro areas traffic is a challenge to your driving acumen, use to the rythmn of their local traffic and as they say in those areas making your move. Well TV roads are not made to make your move, have a different rythmn causing many of these folks to become impatient, these same folks also have that attitude on the multi-modal paths. Now add to that this very high homogenous population of people who are not as fast on the trigger as they use to be and well...we have the perfect storm.
As a side bar without the gates and LOE it would be worse.
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