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Road Diets: Fixing the Big Roads

Dan Burden and Peter Lagerway

Nationwide, engineers are putting roads on “diets,” helping them lose lanes and width. In the process formerly “fat” streets often become leaner, safer, and more efficient. They become multi-modal and more productive. In many cases these former “warrior” roadways are tamed and turned into “angels.”

Source: Road Diets: Fixing the Big Roads

Published: March 1999

Updated: 6/29/2017
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