19th Ave. 5 lanes & a turn lane?! Really? How about bike lanes and planter strips instead?

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There are too many "mini highways" in Central Phoenix. Arterial roads with huge right of ways and 5 or more lanes. Central Phoenix will never feel like an exciting, dense, urban place with these giant wide roads and cars moving 50MPH+.

The 7's are of course one example, but so is 19th Ave and 16th St. With the existence and expansion of the LRT, not to mention the SR51 & I-17 there's no need for 5+ lane roads running North-South in Central Phoenix.

Almost all the traffic in Central PHX is East-West traffic, so for now I suppose those roads can be lower in the priority list for a road diet. Though I'd eventually like to see that as well when the LRT West extension and a future line down Camelback happen.