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Article: QUEEN CITY AVENUE TO GO WITH THE FLOW.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 10, 2001
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Byline: Ken Wilson Post staff reporter
Reversible traffic lanes - long a source of white-knuckle trips for drivers on major thoroughfares - are on their way out in Cincinnati.
When reversible lanes on Beechmont Avenues are eliminated this summer, it will leave Queen City Avenue as the last remaining major Cincinnati street featuring lanes that reverse direction throughout the day in an attempt to smooth traffic flows. And there are plans to do away with Queen City's reversible lanes by, in part, widening the road.
While easing rush-hour traffic is one of the major objectives of the reversible lanes - marked alternately by green or red X's - they also have caused ...