Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 10 September, 2023, 11:34:02 pm
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/sep/10/tame-wide-roads-and-replace-them-with-boulevards-of-homes-create-streets
Some think tank's suggestions for house building in cities. It seems that Saarfend has been selected for this treatment. Let's jolly well hope so, but I think our cretinous council would bugger anything up.
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It looks bonkers, but slightly interesting.
I very much doubt it would have any actual effect on numbers of houses built.
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It's always amusing when it snows and shows how much road space goes unused in the actual practice of driving.
That said, like everything planning these days, what-about-the-parking.
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One of the reasons the big gyratory near Bristol Temple Meads was replaced with a series of traffic lights was to release land for building, though that has (mostly if not entirely) gone to offices not accommodation.