alt Hacker NewsFunny hearing this about the UK where a major A road looks like some dusty forgotten american rural county route. You can complain about building for the car after you’ve ripped apart the middle of london for a 12 lane viaduct freeway with four level interchanges.
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justincormack • today at 9:41 AM
That was planned after the war, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Ringways but mostly didnt happen apart from a few pieces like the Westway.
But we did remove traffic from half of Oxford Street last week.
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Any road, no matter how small, prevents the area around the businesses from being a social space.
If you can’t put a picnic table on it, it’s a place where movement must be prioritized over recreation.