{ Sunday, January 2, 2005 }
Make the roads more dangerous for driving to make them safer
I'm kind of obsessed with street design, and missed this article in Wired, Roads Gone Wild:
But one look at West Palm Beach suggests an evolution is under way. When the city of 82,000 went ahead with its plan to convert several wide thoroughfares into narrow two-way streets, traffic slowed so much that people felt it was safe to walk there. The increase in pedestrian traffic attracted new shops and apartment buildings. Property values along Clematis Street, one of the town's main drags, have more than doubled since it was reconfigured.
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