"[N]eighborhood connectivity is improved by extending Carling Drive, which provides an additional connection between Allied Drive and the Nakoma Heights area. Stage 1 will also provide two new connections underneath Verona Road, one connecting Carling Drive to Freeport Road and one connecting the west frontage road with the east frontage road near Summit Road (as part of the jug-handle)." ... "The Beltline bridge pedestrian overpass structures just east and west of the Verona Road/Beltline interchange will remain and the structure to the east is replaced during Stage 1 and improved to meet current standards..." P. ES-12
If a person's breath and pace are truly important, then it is the neighborhood connectivity that needs the greatest priority. It should benefit from traffic calming measures (none of which are proposed), and new inviting gateways of beautiful landscaping, sculpture, enveloping tree canopies that spread gracefully over the streets. The pedestrian-bicycle overpasses must have connections to paths (on both sides of the freeway) and destinations for walkers and bicycles (the Southwest Commuter Bike Path already does this, but could be enhanced by offering better east-west connections). The concentrated flow of high speed motor vehicles through and between the neighborhoods is like a knife in their hearts. If neighborhood connectivity is an actual goal of the project, then YES!, let's have more and increased cross connections over and under. Make them beautiful and livable and an asset to be enjoyed. Those enumerated in the plan are inadequate. More and better-designed interconnections are required. Ideally the U.S. Highway 151 would disappear altogether, leaving a friendly, walkable residential street grid. Any progress toward that ideal is the responsible plan. Anything less lacks vision and is ultimately immoral and a failure. --- "Comments on the SDEIS are encouraged from all members of the public and are due by Friday, December 17, 2010." http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/projects/d1/verona/index.htm These are comments on the supplemental and draft environmental impact statement (SDEIS/DEIS) reports for the Dane County US 18/151 (Verona Road) corridor. I've edited these down to bite size quick reads... --- _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
