It was toward the end of 1995 when the switch was made to angled parking and two lanes of traffic on Superior Street. I thought at the time that it was going to be a disaster, with cars jammed up behind buses at bus stops and people backing out of angled spots with limited visibility into the compacted traffic of the single lanes.

But I have to admit it didn't end up being bad at all. On the benefit side, I remember a claim at the time that the number of parking spaces increased with the switch to diagonal parking -- but I don't have any numbers to back that up or provide any sense of whether the increase was significant. On the downside, traffic is obviously a bit slower, but that's part of what some people wanted in order to make it safer for pedestrians.