Henley Street in Stratford upon Avon has been fully pedestrianised since 1997. The council got rid of cars because Henley Street – once one of Stratford’s first and most major thoroughfares – is the town’s honeypot, location of the building […]
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At the end of the 19th century America had the world’s best cycle infrastructure: the elevated California Cycleway and the Coney Island Cycle Path. I reckon way is a far more powerful and positive word than path. In America and […]
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At the end of the 19th century America had the world’s best cycle infrastructure: the elevated California Cycleway and the Coney Island Cycle Path. I reckon way is a far more powerful and positive word than path. In America and […]
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You have to love pedestrians. Pedestrians make up the greater part of mankind. Not only that, the finer part. Pedestrians created the world. It was they who built towns, raised skyscrapers, installed drainage and plumbing, paved the streets and lit […]
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It’s 1893. Road locomotives, such as the newfangled motorcar, cannot be practically driven on the queen’s highway (they’re not street legal for another three years). The fastest thing on the roads is still the bicycle. But a dip in bicycling’s […]
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In last week’s Sunday Times, the newspaper’s ‘motormouth’ correspondent Mike Rutherford wrote: “Parking is now officially, in my book at least, one of the undisputed rip-offs of the decade.” He claims he will no longer pay for “heinously expensive spaces” […]
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More and more cities around the world are waking up to the fact that it’s people who shop, not cars. Designing streets for cars, and not people, can therefore reduce retail takings. Take Regent Street in London, for example. It’s […]
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Thirteen years before the start of the Great War, British author and futurist H. G. Wells predicted the European Union, tarmac roads, wind farms, tanks, motorways, sexual liberation and not just the internet but specific parts of the internet, including […]
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In 1903, Main Street in Colywn Bay in Wales was a street that could happily accommodate both people and traffic. The folk of the day are seen here treating the street as part of the town, not merely a thoroughfare […]
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