Drove this way yesterday for the first time in quite awhile. For some crazy reason the street has been significantly widened. The trees normally planted in the grassy strip between the sidewalk and the street are in little concrete islands separated by the gutter from sidewalk.
Google streetview shows just how wide this stretch of Delor was already.

Delor streetview prior to widening.


I failed to take pics.

It was widened just enough to keep passing cars from sideswiping parked cars, which was a big problem. I think there may be a thread floating around here somewhere.

MattnSTL wrote:It was widened just enough to keep passing cars from sideswiping parked cars, which was a big problem. I think there may be a thread floating around here somewhere.

Seems like a crazy and expensive solution to a problem that has some other root cause. I'm not arguing whether you are correct or not as to the reason but look at the streetview here and tell me that it makes sense.

lukethedrifter wrote:

MattnSTL wrote:It was widened just enough to keep passing cars from sideswiping parked cars, which was a big problem. I think there may be a thread floating around here somewhere.

Seems like a crazy and expensive solution to a problem that has some other root cause. I'm not arguing whether you are correct or not as to the reason but look at the streetview here and tell me that it makes sense.

I'm not sure what you're trying to show with that image. Clearly, the street wasn't wide enough to accommodate two cars passing each other with cars parked on either side. That's fine for side streets. My own street is like that. But Delor was just too narrow to handle its (perhaps unplanned) status as a throughway between Kingshighway and Morganford. That also made it a tricky and dangerous street to cross on foot, too.

The recent widening seems like a pretty low-impact solution to me. All that was lost was that grassy strip. What strikes you as "crazy" about it?

The street view is from before it was widened by about a foot on each side. The tree lawn has been completely eliminated and there are bump outs that contain trees and fire hydrants.

Uggh, I can't stand Idiot Davis. "You Paid For It" was worth watching about 10 years ago, but he hasn't had a good story in a long time.