The second round of takeoffs of paved roads is complete, this time measuring the arterial and public parkways that exclude typical surface streets in neighborhoods, or private drives.
The roads include:
Michigan
Winter Park
Virginia/Corrine
Edgewater
Raleigh/Elston/Columbia
Pennsylvania/Lake Sue
Lakemont
Par
Clay
Minnesota
Formosa
Denning
Mercy
Lake Orlando
Mills
Bennett
New Broad
Holden
Americana
Texas
Rio Grande
Hansel
Hoffner
Lake Margaret
Gatlin
Briarcliff/Ferncreek
Bumby
Conway Gardens
Crystal Lake
Dixie Bell
Simmons
Kennedy
Anderson
Pershing
Crystal Lake
Ontario
Summerlin
Robinson
Millenia
Bruton/Vineland
McLeod
Ivey
Pine Hills
Lake Breeze
Wymore
Park
Palmer
Glenridge
General Rees
Kaley
Orange Center/Gore
All together, these have an aggregate area of 17,892,088 square feet of pave surface area (.64 square miles). Again, this omits radii of paving at corners of intersections, on and off ramps, center median turn lanes and turn lanes in general, a very conservative figure.
If we converted all of these to 14' wide cycling roads, then we would reduce the total square footage for these roads to 7,051,716 square feet, a 60.59% reduction!
If we combine this with the highways, we have a total of 58,716,457 square feet, or about 2.11 square miles. Give give a sense of scale, below is an image that shows 2.1 square miles overlaid on downtown Orlando. Imagine a field roughly 1.4 miles by 1.4 miles, entire paved in concrete and asphalt, no trees, no lakes, just flat, hard paving. That's what we're talking about, and we haven't even begun to evaluate the private drives, and eventually all off street parking.
The roads include:
Michigan
Winter Park
Virginia/Corrine
Edgewater
Raleigh/Elston/Columbia
Pennsylvania/Lake Sue
Lakemont
Par
Clay
Minnesota
Formosa
Denning
Mercy
Lake Orlando
Mills
Bennett
New Broad
Holden
Americana
Texas
Rio Grande
Hansel
Hoffner
Lake Margaret
Gatlin
Briarcliff/Ferncreek
Bumby
Conway Gardens
Crystal Lake
Dixie Bell
Simmons
Kennedy
Anderson
Pershing
Crystal Lake
Ontario
Summerlin
Robinson
Millenia
Bruton/Vineland
McLeod
Ivey
Pine Hills
Lake Breeze
Wymore
Park
Palmer
Glenridge
General Rees
Kaley
Orange Center/Gore
All together, these have an aggregate area of 17,892,088 square feet of pave surface area (.64 square miles). Again, this omits radii of paving at corners of intersections, on and off ramps, center median turn lanes and turn lanes in general, a very conservative figure.
If we converted all of these to 14' wide cycling roads, then we would reduce the total square footage for these roads to 7,051,716 square feet, a 60.59% reduction!
If we combine this with the highways, we have a total of 58,716,457 square feet, or about 2.11 square miles. Give give a sense of scale, below is an image that shows 2.1 square miles overlaid on downtown Orlando. Imagine a field roughly 1.4 miles by 1.4 miles, entire paved in concrete and asphalt, no trees, no lakes, just flat, hard paving. That's what we're talking about, and we haven't even begun to evaluate the private drives, and eventually all off street parking.
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