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http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1105614487492&call_pageid=970599119419

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1427660,00.html

I'd like to see them try this in Cambridge, if only because the clutter on the streets in the city centre is incredibly ugly. This is assuming, of course, that it has the right effect on taxi drivers and other cretins. But given that our councils have very old-fashioned and rules-bound approaches to road design, I don't have much hope.

Date: 2005-01-17 15:12 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com
Because nothing can go sufficiently fast down the road to hurt them, because of all the unaware pedestrainas in the way...

Date: 2005-01-17 15:42 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sparrowsion
(a) Because people are like that.
(b) Because it severely impacts the usability of the road for non-pedestrians. As I said, it effectively provides a pedestrianised road, whereas the goal appears to be maintaining general purpose use.

Date: 2005-01-17 20:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] arnhem.livejournal.com
My own experience is that the only time it impacts the usability of Trinity St (and friends) is when there is an extremely large number of users of the road (eg hordes of pedestrians on Saturdays, or hordes of cyclists at 8:55 during term-time).

But then, the same can be observed on the M25 ...

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