The prescription is to put our cities on a road diet. As fellow planner Fred Kent told Playhouse District leaders last year, Pasadena's main drag, Colorado, is way too wide….Can every downtown get with the skinny streets program?

Will all of the proposals in the pedestrian plan — lagging left turns, speed humps, pedestrian scrambles, "skinny" streets — be implemented, or is the department just throwing out ideas?

Why create skinny streets in neighborhoods? Allowing newly-paved residential streets to be narrower provides many benefits to area residents. Skinny streets help preserve neighborhood livability, while improving access to homes.