[QuarterReptile]

This is precisely the type of thing that US cities need to stop doing. Building to a top level of service from the outset is a terrible plan.

What US cities need is a chaotic process of applying improvements, then making more permanent and high quality iterations as the initial fixes take hold. If your town has wide roads and cars that drive too fast, the logical step isn't installing curbs for protected bike lanes; it's paint to artificially narrow the road.

It won't give a perfectly clean implementation for every project, but it will prevent cities from making enormous bets that end up failing.