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What's wrong with removing busy roads from urban areas? The idea has been tried many times in many European cities and it has been proven to be an excellent ide
by tirpen 6y ago
What's wrong with removing busy roads from urban areas? The idea has been tried many times in many European cities and it has been proven to be an excellent idea almost every time.
Making city centers into pedestrian zones with bike paths and a few bus lanes passing through does wonders for sound levels, safety, makes getting around easier, improves air quality and make the city centers more alive and pleasant.
[Here is a report by the European Commission](https://ec.europa.eu/environment/pubs/pdf/streets_people.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/environment/pubs/pdf/streets_people.pdf) that analyses the effects of reclaiming streets from cats in eight different cities.
- burgerzzz 6y agoThey've been making progress very slow progress in downtown Portland in promoting some of these things, which I appreciate frankly. But I really wonder what you do with the suburbs. Perhaps, rapid urbanization? But that may push more people to suburbanizing even more, and you need these arterial roads to get traffic between the suburban and downtown/more condensed areas. I think it would be interesting to investigate the motives for suburban <-> urban area commutes and try to eliminate them first.