Weird new on street parking, main street on the east side?

Convicts Only Parking

Trying to slow down speeders by going with angle parking and only two lanes instead of four

is it being done by the city, or is it a main street business owners program? the black and white curbs are so bizarre looking.

I read this the other day. Kind of odd, but hey maybe it'll work.
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2012/04/19/Work-starts-on-angle-parking-in-E-Toledo.html

Good to see! Walkable urban environments have become something of a science, and this is a halmark of just about all of the most successful models. Reducing the big four lane thoroughfares down to two lanes and converting the outside lanes into angled parking does wonders for a downtown area.

this is definitely worth a try... i am interested to know who pushed for this.

i might have prefered:

parrallel parking - bike lane - car lane - two way turn lane - car lane - bike lane - parrallel parking

main street gets a lot of bike riders who are forced on to fairly busy sidewalks. i think this would actually be a good arrangement in several places such as monroe between bancroft and jermain park

Gotta luv this Blade pic. 1 city worker actually working. 5 others watching.

I think this is a fantastic step in the right direction. It can be a traffic nightmare, but we're not a giant metropolis and we should stop treating our downtown areas as such. I know, this is Main St not Jefferson Avenue, but perhaps downtown Toledo could rethink it's freakish private parking lots & garages if this works out. It's such a basic thing. If you want people & business to thrive in an area they need to feel safe, and not inconvenienced otherwise they just go to a strip mall.

Shh one of those guys is a super, one is a safety official, one is a traffic control expert, and the other is a quality control engineer.

No we don't need to EVER tackle union work issues.

Fantastic move by the city.

Other than the city workers looking bad. It's a damn shame Issue 2 passed.

This is a smart move. The whole "downtown" East Toledo area has the potential to be one of the most walkable, pedestrian oriented neighborhoods in Toledo, short of Downtown, itself. I also would prefer something more along the lines of what enjoyeverysandwich said, but this is a whole lot better than what currently exists.

Having lived on the East Side for 42 of my 60 years, I agree, Tobias. They made a start on having a cool area a few years ago, walkable with shady white crab apple trees from Front to E. Broadway, then let it go and cut down all the trees. So ugly after they did that. And NOW, they move Main St down to one lane right before they close the AWB for 2 years, it's almost as if they're pushing everyone to use 280 to get everywhere. Guess it would take the pressure off the King Bridge if everyone did that, so maybe that's the plan...

oh wow, yeah. it didn't even occur to me that this is happening right before they shut down the high level. it's going to be crazy congested on main street. yikes!

Go across the Craig bridge from the east side, sheesh.