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View submission: Improving walkability cost me an election
I’ll add that from a layperson’s perspective, when I drive through a town with a sting of closely connected roundabouts, replacing stop signs, lights or uncontrolled intersections, my gut immediately goes to “over-engineered, waste of taxpayer dollars”.
I think this is 100% a messaging/delivery issue. I’d rather pay double for the project to be done in phases, starting with the most dangerous/heavily trafficked intersection, backed up by the evidence of reduction in accidents, etc., as a way of easing me into it.
And this is coming from someone who worked in a small Dutch town for a while, experienced how amazing bicycle first infrastructure and properly designed roundabouts are far superior to the mess of car first infrastructure in the United States.
There's nothing here!