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response to Josh Jackson, Morgan Currie, Jon Beanlands, Lou Thomas, Ralf Youtz, and Melissa Tvetan's post Decongestion

In traffic, as elsewhere, less is often more

This is a finely crafted round-up of some good ideas from roads all over the place.

I especially enjoyed the piece entitled "Naked Streets". In my city, Vancouver, Canada, we have nasty, snarling, congested traffic all over, every day, just like lots of places.

But for over 25 years, we have also had in our midst an island of calm called Granville Island where cars and walkers and cyclists and skateboarders all share the same surface. It's not perfect, not everybody gets it, but it seems to work for almost everyone almost all the time.

Strangely, this bold experiment has never been extended to anywhere else in our increasingly congested town. Maybe now that the Dutch have taken their plunge, we can have more confidence in ourselves.

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Commented on April 18, 2007 by - CanadianPacific