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On some superblocks it seems to me they could connect the corner blocks instead of the center block as the one way lanes. This would leave the old middle roads
by transfire 10y ago
On some superblocks it seems to me they could connect the corner blocks instead of the center block as the one way lanes. This would leave the old middle roads free of cars altogether giving pedestrians more space and maybe let the cars go a little faster (10 km/h is rather unbearably slow slow).
- icebraining 10y agoWe're only talking about 200m stretches, so even at 10km/h it's only a couple of minutes max.
- transfire 10y agoI can't even make my car go that slow without tapping the break. We have kids that play in the streets in my community, most people go the speed limit 20mph and we have no problems. Just saying 6mph is really really slow.
- masklinn 10y ago> I can't even make my car go that slow without tapping the break. That's an issue with your car, not with the speed limit.
- masklinn 10y ago> On some superblocks it seems to me they could connect the corner blocks instead of the center block as the one way lanes. > This would leave the old middle roads free of cars altogether giving pedestrians more space You seem to be missing the point entirely. The in-block roads are for when you have something to do in the block, which is why you can't cross a block through them (they loop and send you back the way you came from). You arrive, you do your thing and you leave. The entire block is pedestrian space, which is why the speed limit is pedestrian range. > maybe let the cars go a little faster (10 km/h is rather unbearably slow slow). 1. that would defeat the entire point of superblocks by still having fast vehicles within them 2. at 400m long, in-block loops can be traversed entirely in 2mn, since you've got something to do there (otherwise you'd go around the superblock) that seems perfectly fine.