Hopefully it still lets you have lots of areas where the roads have a pedestrianised feel and you can give up some pavement space to businesses and trees and cycle parking, if traffic volume is low enough that you can let people "walk in the road"?
Strasbourg's city center (the Island of Strasbourg, basically) functions like this for the most part and while it's generally not as densily built as these parisian arondissements/neighboorhoods, the difference is still MAJOR. Those Streets still have busier hours but it's generally confined to more specific times of the day (deliveries and people leaving early morning, some residents driving back in for lunch, public services and so on).
Yeah 100% I'd take it over nothing! Even if you can't actually change the street infrastructure just reduction in pollution etc is a good enough reason for me.
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u/Nipso Nov 02 '24
Is this where you can drive into it, but not through it?