Elements of Sustainable Transportation
Pedestrian Streets
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Pedestrian Streets |
| Many great communities have pedestrian streets (also known as pedestrian plazas or pedestrian malls). A pedestrian street is car-free, serves as a meeting place (both spontaneous and planned), and provides space for commerce, music, art, and other community activities. These places are essential for livability. |
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| Pedestrian plazas help create a 'sense of place' in a community. |
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| Another example of a pedestrian street, this one in Zakopane, Poland- on a quiet Sunday morning. |
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A very skinny pedestrian street in Ketchikan, Alaska (Creek Street). |
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the pedestrian mall in Burlington, Vermont |
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| In this picture the plaza serves as a flea market and gathering space on a weekend morning. Many cities have plazas that serve the function of a farmers market- sometimes every morning of the week. |
| Links:
www.culturechange.org/issue14/pedestrianmall.html www.streetswithoutcars.com |
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