What is a Road Diet?
Basically a road diet is switching a road from four lanes to two, with a center turn lane. Engineers and planners alike have found that in high turn environments (like Broadway) three-lane roads can carry as many motor vehicles as a four-lane road- with greater safety and efficiency for all modes of transportation.
The phrase ‘road diet’ is used to describe any reconfiguration of a road that involves a reduction in the number of vehicle lanes. In the case of Island Crest Way, the proposed reconfiguration would involve conversion of four vehicle lanes to three vehicle lanes. It sounds crazy at first, but after reading through the material on this website, we hope you’ll appreciate the compelling reasons for change.
