05 March 2006

Prairie Village Future City Plans

I have discovered some great plans that Prairie Village has introduced in order to make Prairie Village a better, even though it's great now, place to live. Here are some ideas:

  • Narrowing traffic lanes
  • Providing additional green space with a median or parkway along the sidewalk
  • Developing a program to plant new or replace street trees with ones more in scale with the surrounding buildings and ones that would not interfere with overhead utility lines
  • Use paved areas currently restricted from traffic for green space
75th Street Corridor (between State Line & Nall):


^Current 75th Corridor, just East of Mission^


^Idea for new 75th corridor, just East of Mission^



^Current 75th Corridor @ Roe^


^Idea for new 75th Corridor @ Roe^



These ideas would narrow the lanes, but would add landscaping where traffic is not allowed (where there is yellow paint is in the center of the roadway).

More to come.

1 comment:

Davidbrk said...

that would be a wonderful change, reversing the destructive force of allowing traffic to govern the looks of cities - by increasing lane width and such - by narrowing down those lanes and increasing the asthetics of the city. It sounds expensive though.