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[Wowbagger]

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.

[Jaded]

It looks bonkers, but slightly interesting.

I very much doubt it would have any actual effect on numbers of houses built.

[ian]

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.

[Cudzoziemiec]

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.