Comment on ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank
snacks@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I like the idea but is this not public land being sold to private property developers? A rethink of road traffic flows in a modern context is fine until we end up making neighbourhoods really crowded with shoebox investment portfolio options
mackwinston@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I don’t think the idea is to build houses on the wide roads, the idea is to build them beside the wide roads but remove space for private cars and instead repurpose that space for pedestrians and cyclists (in other words, have wide pavements ideally tree lined but instead of 4 wide lanes of cars maybe 2 narrow lanes with most of the space turned over as a public space for people).
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I like your idea, but that’s not what the article says
Only housing is mentioned.
mackwinston@feddit.uk 9 months ago
No, not just housing but a boulevard. By definition a boulevard is wide. It wouldn’t be a boulevard if they made the road narrow by building houses on the road rather than by the side of the road, so while the article doesn’t explicitly say it, by calling it “boulevards of new housing” implies that the thoroughfare does indeed remain wide, and becomes tree lined rather than car-lined.
The Cambridge English Dictionary defines a boulevard as:
“A wide road in a city, usually with trees on each side or along the centre”
cyberpunk_sunbear@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
"A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees. " - Wikipedia
snacks@feddit.uk 9 months ago
i hope so. Theres a brilliant video by B1M about Rochester in the US where they removed a 6 lane highway ringroad and it looks amazing theb1m.com/…/america-interstate-highway-system-te…
midgephoto@photog.social 9 months ago
@mackwinston @snacks perhaps one motor lane in the centre, with occasional unloading spaces.