City of Columbus Wastes Money on Ineffective “Visual Road Diets”
Road diets can be a great thing because they accomplish slowing traffic which makes it safer for drivers, pedestrians, and cyclists to get around. The problem with what the transportation division has done in some instances is that they merely re-striped lanes to be narrower without physically narrowing the lane. They call it a “visual road diet”, i.e., “useless”. Take the stretch of Champion mentioned in the document above; it’s a wide residential street signed at 35MPH and cars were going at least at that speed.
