Putting Edmonton's Roads on a Diet

Putting Our Roads on a Diet (Video) : TreeHugger

One suggestion I have made for Downtown Edmonton is to eliminate all on-street parking along Jasper Avenue from 124 Street to 95 Street and remove the 'bus bumps' which hold up transit on nearly every block. Make the outside lanes bus / bike only and restrict cabs to transit zones. You would lose about 600 parking spots (30 blocks * 10 spots per block * both sides of the street), about 1.3% of the 45,000 which are located in the core (mostly in surface lots), but gain increased efficiency in transit and relax the speed while increasing overall safety and encouraging more transit use.

The additional benefits (as noted in the video linked above) would be to encourage people to walk more in the core which in turn helps grow and support street level commercial and human-scale development in Edmonton's CBD.