Cities Switching Back One-Way Streets To Two-Way

To make downtown more livable, cities across the nation are converting one-way streets to two-way streets.

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December 23, 2006, 1:00 PM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"Danville is one of hundreds of cities - from Berkeley, Calif., to Charleston, S.C. - switching one-way streets to two-way to improve commerce downtown, according to the American Planning Association in Chicago. The trend got rolling in the early 1990s and has expanded this year to bigger cities such as Miami, Dallas and Minneapolis. It's part of the reinvention of former industrial cities, which are converting empty factories into loft housing and trying to convince suburbanites that downtowns are livable."

Thanks to Richard Layman

FULL STORY: Many cities changing one-way streets back

Thursday, December 21, 2006 in USA Today

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