How to improve a street in one easy step…
How to improve a street in one easy step…
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pietervdvn @lemmy.ml
Your title is a big lie. "One simple step"?
- Install left gate
- Install right gate
- Add traffic signs
- Add pedestrian icon to street
See, this is at least 4 steps! I call bullshit!
/jk
In all seriousness, this is indeed great. Next step is to remove some of the now unneeded asphalt and replace it with greenery
29 1 ReplyHestia [comrade/them, she/her] @hexbear.net
Excuse me? there are actually five steps. you forgot "Add Bikes"
4 0 ReplynewerAccountWhoDis [they/them] @hexbear.net nah, those come all by themselves as soon as the street is liberated
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delirious_owl @discuss.online
It needs a barrier to separate bikes from pedestrians
11 3 Replyfpslem @lemmy.world Naw, people on foot and on bike mix pretty well, it's the 2+-tonne metal cages that ruin cities.
14 6 ReplyMNByChoice @midwest.social No. Lots of people think pedestrians have to get out of the way of bicyclists.
Additionally, the crashes hurt and people can be killed regardless of the participants, so separation is good.
10 2 ReplyAnnoyed_🦀 🏅 @monyet.cc
Motorcycle using pedestrian path is very common where i from.
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barrbaric [he/him] @hexbear.net Pedestrians are forming a United Front with the cyclists until cars are abolished. Their time will come after the car drivers are stamped out.
5 1 Replyanarchoilluminati [comrade/them] @hexbear.net
They shouldn't be walking on the street where cars are allowed anyway, they walk on the sidewalk so they don't go through the same gate.
1 2 ReplyHestia [comrade/them, she/her] @hexbear.net
That's just collateral damage. Nobody cares if a child or two get killed by a biker.
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fpslem @lemmy.world This sort of treatment costs so little to install, just a few thousand euros and political will. And the tragedy is that most towns could easily come up with the former but can't muster the latter.
8 1 ReplyGorillatactics [none/use name] @hexbear.net Bollards?
5 0 Replyxmunk @sh.itjust.works I definitely prefer bollards since drunk people can barrel their truck through this style of gate but bollards... bollards are going to stop that shit.
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Omgboom @lemmy.zip I'm picturing an SUV trying to squeeze between those gates obliviously
5 0 ReplyMigratingtoLemmy @lemmy.world Where is this
3 0 Replylemmyreader @lemmy.ml OP Paris. OP wrote as comment :
This is on my walk to work. The best thing about pedestrian streets in Paris is they help you avoid the dog shit covered sidewalks.
7 1 ReplyMigratingtoLemmy @lemmy.world France has stray dogs on the streets?
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Zagorath @aussie.zone
I'm concerned that that entrance is uncomfortably narrow for a bike. Or even for two pedestrians walking side-by-side.
My city has recently been removing its banana bars at the entrance to pedestrian and shared paths, and honestly it's so much better. You don't need to be as narrow as this to keep cars out.
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