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The solution to the neighborhood problem is to make it impossible for a car to use those roads as through streets. Basically you put up a bunch of bollards, so
by cmurf 9y ago
The solution to the neighborhood problem is to make it impossible for a car to use those roads as through streets. Basically you put up a bunch of bollards, so people can still walk and bike through a neighboorhood, but cars would only use the roads to get to a specific destination in that neighborhood. There's a word for this layout, I can't think of it - with the bollards in place, it turns the neighborhood into a maze of hard right and left turns. It's totally pointless to find a work around (in a car).
- sjwalter 9y agoPortland has aggressively pursued traffic calming and these traffic shaping measures you discuss. I first thought it was brutal and everyone drive really slow. On residential streets, both sides almost always allow forstreet parking, and so the roads don't allow for two way traffic. On other roads they narrow the lanes a lot, using bollards or increasing shoulder. They realize that traffic is a social engineering problem and not a highway engineering one. Now I love it. I drive slower when it makes sense to, and I do so because it's what feels right at the slice of road I'm on, not because of the sign that says the max speed.