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Des Moines delays Grand and Locust conversion after staff recommends —right-sizing— alternative
Summary
After a study and public engagement showed split public opinion, city engineers recommended retaining one-way operations while —right-sizing— Grand Avenue (reducing lanes and adding a protected two-way cycle track); city staff recommended delaying the project in the CIP pending DART and budget review.
City engineering staff presented a study on converting downtown Grand and Locust avenues and recommended a lower-cost, —right-sizing— approach rather than full two-way conversion, then asked the council to delay the project in the Capital Improvement Program for further review.
Steve Nabor, Des Moines City Engineer, told the council the study evaluated safety, circulation, parking, transit and bicycle connectivity for the corridor between 5th Avenue and 15th Street. Public engagement (open houses, an Input ID portal and polling) produced mixed results: for example, roughly 63% favored two-way on Grand in one poll but only 45% favored it on Locust,…
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