"A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees. " - Wikipedia
Comment on ‘Tame’ wide British roads and replace them with boulevards of homes, says thinktank
Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoI 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.
cyberpunk_sunbear@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
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”