I know we've appeared to have a consultant firm convince the city that it should convert the existing one-ways to bidirectional roadways. I, and I think many other people in the city, think that is absolutely the wrong way to go. With as congested as Broadway gets sometimes, I think if you add two more similar streets with that traffic pattern, you're going to end up with one large headache and more traffic than you want to deal with downtown.

Keep them one-ways to ensure we have proper flow of traffic. To take this idea further, we need more one-ways and we need to reconnect streets to ensure we have as few dead end streets as possible downtown. I propose doing the following:

1. Keep NP Ave a three lane eastbound oneway all the way up to the bridge. Rearrange the intersection for this new configuration.

2. Keep 1st Ave N. a three lane westbound oneway all the way up to University Drive. Basically nothing changes.

3. Convert 2nd Ave N. into a three lane eastbound oneway all the way up to 2nd St. N. This will require extending the road between 4th St. and 2nd St. (basically plows through existing city hall and parking lot). A new city hall is needed anyways.

4. Convert 3rd Ave N. into a three lane westbound oneway all the way up to University Drive. This will require extending the road between Broadway and 7th (basically plows through a structure on Broadway and the middle of the parking lots of the Federal Building and Salvation Army).

5. Convert 4th Ave N. into a three land eastbound oneway all the wap up to 2nd St. N.

I'd like to see these actually continue further west as that's where I see downtown expanding to. But I'll settle for between University and 2nd St. N for now so we can establish a road system that handle the volume I think downtown will see in the future. Since they are now talking about a $100+ Million project to redo downtown infrastructure, this would be a perfect opportunity to do this.