Almost like how most of those streets were originally designed, before cars were invented
Car with horse existed when theses road were designed.
It's even a paved road, I find it a bit sad they tore down the pavement.
There is even a photo somewhere on internet where you can see a dead horse with kids playing next to it as car pass by.
Exemple of a photo 100year ago in Paris:
Pedestrian can walk on pavement.
I'd like to remind that cars were banned in center of Rome, because there was too much cars.
And I'm talking about the Rome of 2000 years ago.
They might have not suffered the noise of cars as much as today, but accordig to that photo they did constantly suffer the noise of lowercase a everywhere
A horse carriage is very loud on pavement.
Also lots of horseshit everywhere.
Making a road with shops and services pedestrian-only will greatly increase foot traffic and people shopping there. Now people will walk down the street and stop in places they happen to find. In cars people who to know about it and specifically choose to go there.
Even though I only go to stores that I planned to go to ahead of time, this switch is great because it means things are closer together and there is roughly the same amount of walking as driving to multiple stores and needing to walk from the lot into each one. Plus the view is better!
There's a spot not far from my house that's right across a little pedestrian bridge. The shops are lined up along a walking path and face a small park. They do enormous amounts of business, particularly in the evenings when kids are out playing and adults can simply walk across the street to grab dinner or visit the sports bar.
I am all on board with "Fuck Cars", but also your street is always going to look nicer with bright overhead lighting during midday, relative to the dreary shadows of the early morning.
The buildings on the left have sunbeams on them and you can see the bright sky reflected on the car windscreens. The bottom pic has a cloudy sky but has been brightened and saturated as much as the top pic has been dulled and greyed.
We get the point, but be honest
The bottom picture looks like a mock up computer generated image from an architect's presentation of their plan for the street.
That's how apartment and house pictures get me. The brightly edited rooms look so nice!
THAT is what you saw?
I saw no cars, plants, people walking and enjoying, I saw beauty. Just the "oh but the lighting is better too" is something I really just plain missed.
And bring back the canals that were turned into highways in the 80's (Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Pretty sure Sadiq khan tried to pedestrianise Oxford street but the conservative local council were like no actually we quite like the most polluted street in Europe as is thanks a lot I prefer the palpable scent of particulate emissions and nitrous oxide, how else am I going to enjoy my boarded up empty shops? Tories man, you know what they’re like
It’s almost as though conservative ideology has nothing to offer than to stand in the of way making things better
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