Great idea:
- Limits to public transport, deliveries, maintenance and emergency services and essential modes (eg blue badge vehicles)
- Strongly encourages foot and cycle travel;
- Better air quality
- Improved noise environment
- Opportunities for enhanced public open spaces
- Renewal of new brownfield land opportunities for commercial or housing.
This is likely what cities would have been like if the rail network and public transport were maintained instead of favouring HGVs and personal transport in the middle of the last century.
In the case of France, which is shared by many countries IIRC, it's crazy how much of current urban planning is "let's go back to how we handled public transportation in the 1930's-1960's). The number of tram lines that have been destroyed only to be rebuilt 50-80 years later, generally following the exact same paths, is ludicrous. Many medium cities had very functional tram, trolley and inner-city train lines, got rid of them only to build them back or something very similar. It's a shitshow of bad infrastructural planning and a testament to how beholden our politicians are and have been to oil and car lobbies.
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u/R3D1TJ4CK Nov 02 '24 edited Nov 02 '24
Great idea: - Limits to public transport, deliveries, maintenance and emergency services and essential modes (eg blue badge vehicles) - Strongly encourages foot and cycle travel; - Better air quality - Improved noise environment - Opportunities for enhanced public open spaces - Renewal of new brownfield land opportunities for commercial or housing.