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Our parallel 1 mile apart arterials try to be both streets for local traffic and also high speed intercity roads. This makes them perform poorly in both roles, in terms of traffic throughput, land utilization, and vibrancy.

We need to take half of these stroads[1] and convert them into streets, reducing the speed limit to 30 mph or less, eliminating traffic lanes, widening sidewalks, and painting sharrows[2] or bike lanes, and convert the other half of these stroads into true intercity roads, eliminating driveways and intersections and adding bike paths (physically separated bike paths work better when there are few intersections).