Would narrowing the Frontage roads to two lanes save the lives of cyclists, pedestrians and asthmatics—or pose a deadly traffic jam when ambulances need to get through?
Such life and death prospects were the subject of an hour and a half of tense agonizing Thursday night as the members of the aldermanic Community Development Committee discussed a non-binding resolution urging the city to produce a less car-centric design for its Downtown Crossing project to overhaul Route 34.
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