This plan is significantly better than the original suggestion. Eliminating lanes of traffic would not be a smart move.
Can you imagine game day traffic? You know that nice flow of traffic during the work week on Assembly? I like that. Besides, students have 30 seconds to cross ... that’s the longest I’ve seen in the area. It’s plenty of time for slow walkers.
As for wheel chair users or those who cannot must enough speed to at least get to the middle in 30 seconds, they can use the tunnel. There is already an elevator at the foot of the stairs. It leads to the law school building, which means people who wish to use it have to experience about 10 feet of the building.
— Forgotten Law
Assembly was designed to hold 60,000 cars a day. In reality, it actually only sees 24,000 a day. In fact, Gervais St handles more cars per day, so Assembly could definitely stand to lose some lanes.
As far as football games go, you can’t design a city around a few Saturdays every fall — it needs to be liveable for the other 348 or so days of the year. USC is making a good first step, but Assembly will need a redesign if Columbia wants to be an attractive city.
— Smart Growth for Columbia
@thegamecock students should know how to cross the street by now. Sad that 4 mil has to be allocated for intersections instead of research.
— @kmarchant
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