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 Stories About: bikes AND green living AND placemaking AND Portland AND Seattle AND urban planning AND Vancouver
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What "bike friendly" looks like
Is your town? |
Alan Durning |
19 May 2007 |
Gristmill |
| What if cities had no sidewalks and everyone walked on the road? Or, for urban recreation, they walked on a few scenic trails? What if the occasional street had a three-foot-wide 'walking lane' painted on the asphalt, between the moving cars and the parked ones? Well, for starters, no one would walk much. A hardy few might brave the streets, but most would stop at 'walk?! in traffic?!' Fortunately, this car-head vision is fiction for most pedestrians, but it's not ... |
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| Topics: urban planning, green living, placemaking, bikes, Seattle, Portland, Vancouver (all these topics) |
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