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The (European) city I live close to has done this very step about 30 years ago when their main shopping strip was converted to a pedestrian / bike-only street.
by kleiba 7y ago
The (European) city I live close to has done this very step about 30 years ago when their main shopping strip was converted to a pedestrian / bike-only street.
However, everytime I go there, the street is still full with cars: delivery trucks that bring the retail goods to the stores (which are not easily accessible otherwise), construction trucks for the apparently constant repairs they're doing on the road, ambulances, etc. Even when most of them are not driving you're still constantly surrounded by (mostly big) vehicles.
- raverbashing 7y agoWell, it's a fact of life, you need those vehicles even when people are not driving (I see a similar situation on the pedestrianized street in my city)
- tom_mellior 7y agoIn Vienna the central pedestrian tourist/shopping streets are open for deliveries until 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning, so if you go there at those times, it's quite chaotic. But then all the vehicles are gone for the rest of the day.
- ckris 7y agoThese days most shopping streets also tends to be closed from traffic for security reasons. So it is probably mostly an organizational issue.