She also acknowledged that Martin Luther King Drive itself is unattractive, spanning seven lanes and traffic-choked at rush hour with auto-oriented businesses and parking lots fronting the road between UC and the medical institutions’ campuses and Interstate 71.

“Clearly, in addition to adding amenities to MLK, we have to improve access. There are challenges that weren’t fully recognized about widening Martin Luther King Drive at the same time you were trying to build a sense of place (there),” Brunner said. “What we’re trying to build out here is a place where there isn’t vacant land. There aren’t parking lots. There are people walking. There are a wide range of uses. A mixed-income, high-potential-for success engine that has both the opportunity for people to improve their lives and the placemaking that draws people to experience all of the different assets that exist.”

Well no, a lot of us at the time were saying that is way too many lanes. We KNEW it would be a cluster and given how terrible the bike lane through there is let alone any sense of pedestrian walkability it was about the most expected thing about the project.

Let’s call it Cranley’s 80+ million dollar boondoggle that could’ve been better spent on transit and other methods of getting around.

Is this accidentally another city stating “Fuck Cars” while not quite realizing it?