A so-called road diet isn't a diet. A reduction in travel is a diet. A reduction in travel lanes leading to congestion is the traffic-engineering equivalent of bariatric surgery (stomach bypass surgery), which enforces a diet by making it uncomfortable to eat as much. On the other hand, if the road was overbuilt and the number of lanes remains adequate, there is no diet at all, because the amount of travel doesn't change.

Can we reduce Lee-Clyde street to one lane in either direction? Aside from the budget issue already mentioned, how will the street operate? Read on.