A wee snippet here (down the page) by Linda Baker in the Jan/Feb issue of Sierra magazine on the introduction of woonerfs in Europe, particularly Holland.
No suspense: Woonerfs are "living streets" which "reject standardized traffic controls, which many drivers ignore or try to beat anyway, in favor of attractive urban designs that signal a multi-use public space."
Made safer by being made more dangerous. Where does that sound like?
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Reminds me of a Boom Chicago cabaret sketch Cloud and myself saw in Amsterdam regarding the impossibility of crossing the streets there: the cyclists, the trams, the cars... now there's a combination for a multi-purpose public space designed for 'safe' passageway for pedestrians....
Hi Lisa--
We just got the trams here in Dublin and no one's figured out how to get across the roads yet. When I was growing up in Birmingham we had these great underpasses that no one wanted to use because they were inhabited by trolls who lived on cider, but they could make a comeback now.
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