The traffic-routing system in the downtown district is byzantine & non-intuitive...getting around the downtown is like the punchline to the old joke: 'You can't get there from here!' Thre are more dead-ends & more superblocks than in the past and hardly a day goes by that I don't see at least one driver going the wrong way along our one-way lanes. The other day, the driver of a two-ton delivery truck turned west on to NP Avenue by the fire station- that was one even I had never witnessed before! The solution is obvious: Return NP & 1st avenues north in the downtown district to two-way traffic. There are at least 100 curb cuts along these sections, which would translate directly into 100 NEW TURNING OPTIONS for downtown drivers with 2-way traffic flows. This also means that there would also be roughly 50 opportunities for drivers to TURN AWAY FROM THE CONGESTION along Broadway. True, traffic speed would decrease slightly , but congestion would also decrease. To compensate those who worry @ efficiences, we could convert 1st & 3rd aves north to one-ways west of University Drive...eventually extending these lanes across the interstate with nice overpasses going further west! (North of Main Ave) To compensate homeowners along the new one-ways for concerns re. decreased property valuations, we could pave all residential alleyways with a nice smooth blacktop surface...Another benefit to two-way traffic - according to William Whyte, author of 'City: Rediscovering the Center' - is that two-way traffic opens up the neighborhood *visually* to shoppers (and one assumes *developers*) thereby providing the added benefit of increased $ales -and - one presumes - a more stable tax base for the city!