make uptown waterloo one-lane each way only

D: I'm reading that book "Traffic".
Next stop: "The High Cost of Free Parking".
There is 3x more parking than cars.
More cars than people.
And it is 'free' on prime real estate.

http://www.raisethehammer.org/index.asp?id=072
A good review.

www.city.waterloo.on.ca/.../57ad7180-c5e7-49f5-b282-c6475cdb7ee7/PWS_ROADS_documents/2008ParkingBrochure.pdf

Here's an aerial view of all parking in the uptown area.

D: I propose we lose the King Street roadside parking. We replace them with a view dropoff/pickup points. We expand the sidewalks and lay in bike lanes by sidewalks.
We add trees to that new huge sterile development across the street.
We add more bike stands.

"But it will slow traffic!", you say. No, it won't.
We presently NEED 2 lanes each way cuz we HAVE on-street parking.
The number of parking spaces cannot be more than a dozen per block - which considerably exceeds bike parking.
Every time somebody wants to parallel park, something most folks are terrible at, traffic backs up for a block. Ergo the right-hand lane is really just the parking lane.
Remove the parking and remove the lane.
See the feedback in a past post on what the public wants from uptown.
I just described it.