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Comment on ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank

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).

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Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I like your idea, but that’s not what the article says

Needlessly wide roads should be torn up and replaced with boulevards of new housing

Only housing is mentioned.

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- mackwinston@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”
  
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- cyberpunk_sunbear@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  "A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees. " - Wikipedia
  
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snacks@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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…

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midgephoto@photog.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
@mackwinston @snacks perhaps one motor lane in the centre, with occasional unloading spaces.
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