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Oh god anything but Fabuloso! My sincerest condolences.

Why is this suddenly needed now and not when the Kennedy Connector was built just a handful of years ago? Did trucks not exist in 2012? Today's intersection is still more generous than the older Madison/Ibsen, and that was the access from westbound Madison to I-71 back then too. Where are all these trucks coming from? Ilsco and Coca-Cola can use Duck Creek or Red Bank.

Or instead of being condescending how about answering the question? Turn radii are independent of the number of lanes. It's much easier to round off a corner for trucks than to add a turn lane AND round off the new corner because that gobbles up even more land. Also, did the Oakley Community Council state that they wanted this turn lane for trucks, or are you just projecting? What trucks are using this stretch of road that need so much accommodation? The railroad overpass at the creek has a height clearance of 13'-6" which is also the allowable height of semi tractor trailers, so I don't think many are going through there. That's what Oaklawn and Duck Creek are for.

How does it even help? Trucks need a wide turn radius, right turn lanes don't do that.

Geesh, maybe instead of adding a right turn lane, which is one of the least-effective and urban-unfriendly devices in road design, they could use that space for the outdoor dining plaza shown in the renderings. Instead they removed 80% of it and added a little slip-entrance too. Hurr durr traffick flowz! Also why put the drive-up restaurant on the corner? I was scratching my head trying to figure out what that was until I saw the Swensons note. This is a typical suburban development pattern, just flipped front-to-back. It'll likely turn out little better than this abomination at Rookwood, especially once they realize there's a good 12 feet of elevation change along the length of the property that need to be dealt with. https://goo.gl/maps/FBozTpEpBofaA1Lz8

UC *is* a major urban campus. While the data is out there, I couldn't find a comprehensive analysis over time, but this report from 2016 shows a marked decline in "type I" crimes (murder/manslaughter, assault, robbery, burglary, rape, theft) from the beginning of the decade. What's interesting is that the majority of nearly every crime is perpetuated against non-students. They don't really say who those non-students are, like if they're faculty, staff, visitors, or just people wandering through campus. Nevertheless, robberies and assaults are very low numbers, like low single-digit or at worst low double-digit numbers of incidents per year. Burglaries, theft, and theft from vehicles are the much more prevalent crimes (never mind alcohol and drugs), which usually amount to people leaving their phone or laptop out and someone swiping it. None of these things are fixed by walling off campus from the neighborhood. UC has 46,000 students and 7,000 staff. That's bigger than Covington, whose crime stats are an order of magnitude higher.

No but on a college campus' most prominent (and formal) street I'd expect more than the same trendy schlock circa 2013 that's churned out for every bland apartment block, speculative office building, and suburban medical center from Miami to Vancouver. Kudos for only one of the four renderings being a helicopter shot, but it also shows just how uninviting it is at street (and plaza) level.

It's so...typical.

It has a long way to go to connect to anywhere. I'd usually ride it once a year or so and it was always a bit sketchy because of tree litter. This summer I happened upon the homeless camp and...wow. So a flood must have knocked over the fence, but then people moved in after that? It's sad AF.

Welp, there goes my evening.

The resolution! 😍

Sure but my point was that if they want to be convenient to morning traffic, then being in the triangle is a problem from Red Bank, even if it improves it for Madison. You can't turn left from eastbound Madison onto Medpace and I bet the city wouldn't approve a curb cut on Madison at all unless it was strictly right-in-right-out. You can't even turn right from northbound Red Bank onto Medpace at Duck Creek to backtrack either. So there's actually no way to get to the triangle from northbound Red Bank without bridging the creek or going through the Medpace complex via Red Bank Drive (at the very bottom left of your map).