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I was hoping for more pictures. I wonder how this is different than other shared roads around Europe.
by toper-centage 7y ago
I was hoping for more pictures. I wonder how this is different than other shared roads around Europe.
- toper-centage 7y agoThe 2016 article fortunately gives some more clarity on it.
- dang 7y agoDiscussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12237966
- diggan 7y agoIt's a series of 5 articles, each article having at least ten pictures. Not sure if you missed those, or you're asking for even more pictures. Could probably dig out some from the city government if it's the latter.
- RHSeeger 7y agoI didn't even notice it linked out to stories. I read it as five slides.
- soneil 7y agoThe main difference I see is that most of Europe isn't built on grids. It strikes me they cause as many problems as they solve. Most road networks are essentially hierarchical - you have (more or less) arteries, collectors/feeders, and local roads. Local roads should be for local access, and collectors/feeders consolidate access between arteries and local roads. In the grid, it feels like there is no local road - just arteries (eg Barcelona's diagonals) and .. roads. You can try to downgrade a feeder into a local road using "traffic calming" measures; speed bumps, speed limits, one way systems - but the moment there's any congestion on the intended feeders, people will try to route around it and bring the congestion to the unintended feeders. The whole "superblock" concept appears simply to reintroduce local roads into a system that was built without them - which isn't actually an issue typical of most European cities.