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You can build things that can function as roads but aren't roads. Look at most European cities' inner pedestrian zones. There are roads of old, but closed to t
by Swizec 10y ago
You can build things that can function as roads but aren't roads. Look at most European cities' inner pedestrian zones.
There are roads of old, but closed to traffic and heavily modified. In case of emergency, fire engines can get in. Bicycles and pedestrians can comingle happily on a normal day.
My hometown's (Ljubljana) pedestrian zone is more than a kilometer across. It's quite awesome.
- BorgHunter 10y agoThis is the exact kind of thing I'd love to see more of. I would still call it a road, though, if it can support limited vehicular traffic. "Pedestrian road", maybe. It's a good point, though, that you can support the use cases I mentioned without resorting to the more typical "road-for-cars, sidewalk-for-people" paradigm.
- Shengbo 10y agoI agree. Pedestrian zones that are closed off to regular traffic are very common in Europe and they're awesome. They also boost the traffic the surrounding businesses get and make it easier for cafés and restaurants to add a terrace area. Well-executed pedestrian zones are one of the easiest and most effective ways of making a street more liveable in my opinion. Edit: Also, (preferably one-way)streets where the sidewalk-to-road ratio is a lot higher than usual. Case in point[1] [1]: https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5003418,19.0510879,3a,75y,176.35h,78.4t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sTtOYZqBhyHyQeZyRb3Cb7Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5003418,19.0510879,3a,75y,17...