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traffic calming:
Traffic calming measures were popularized in Europe in the 1970s thus coined the dutch term ‘woonerf’ as a
reaction to the growing dominance of automobile over bicycles. Blurring the boundary between street and sidewalk,
woonerfs combined innovative paving, landscaping and other urban designs to allow for the integration of
pedestrians, cyclists and slow-moving cars. It uses combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the
negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street cars
woonerf:
Woonerf translates roughly as
"street for living," it was first
employed in 1976 Netherland
by Dutch traffic engineer Hans
Monderman, a streetscape
stripped of lane markers,
curbs, sidewalks, zebra
crossings and other obvious
boundaries denoting spaces
meant for single forms of
transportation. Downtown
areas were then converted to
pedestrian areas. Although it
might seem counterintuitive,
this integration naturally
altered driving behavior and
reduced the number of
accidents across Europe.
effectiveness:
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3 Traffic calming techniques are exercised
along broadway which tends to create
1. Times square traffic as it intersect with crossing
2. Herald square avenues, blockage improve the flow of
traffic by reconnecting the grid.
4 3. Madison square In downtown manhattan, turns are
4. Allen and Pike St. eliminated by filling the streets with
pedestrian malls to control traffic.
manhattan:
broadway is closed to vehicles from 47th Street to 42nd
Street. Traffic would continue to flow through on crossing
streets, but the areas between the streets would become
pedestrian malls, with chairs, benches and cafe tables with
umbrellas.
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