Posts tagged Woonerf
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National links: The availability of shade is an important measure of equity
The availability of shade—think trees and bus shelters—isn't equitably distributed in cities like Los Angeles. Mexico's Bus Rapid Transit is a success story. Atlanta, long known for being car-centric, may install a Dutch-style “woonerf” to create the “Time Square of the South.” Keep reading…
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The attached triangle: a solution to a neglected triangle park near you
Nearly 300 small parks scattered around the District of Columbia are owned, and often neglected, by the National Park Service. Dozens of these are little more than traffic islands, remnants left over amidst the many complicated multi-leg intersections along angled streets — a legacy that dates back to the L'Enfant Plan. Keep reading…
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How are the Wharf’s shared spaces working out?
The Dutch concept “woonerf” refers to a shared space where no curbs separate pedestrians, bikes, and cars. Instead, all modes move slowly on the same plane. So how's that working out down at the Wharf? Keep reading…
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DC will get nine blocks of “shared streets” this fall
A new parking garage just opened for customers of the Maine Avenue Fish Market, and with it comes a little taste of the “shared space” streets that will thread through the soon-to-open District Wharf development in Southwest. Keep reading…
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Meet the oasis greenway: An all-in-one street, bikeway, parking lot, and park
Oasis greenways are shared streets that cars, bikes, and pedestrians all use at the same time, at low speed. Like woonerfs, but with a park element. Keep reading…
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Christmas Eve links: Coal
Boathouse suddenly kicked out; MoCo competing for FBI; No CaBi at the Pentagon; More express; No curbs for Alexandria street; Parking garages go mobile; Emissions kill; A few cars have big impact. Keep reading…
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Landscape architects envision a greener Chinatown
How could Chinatown be a greener and more livable neighborhood? Designers from the American Society of Landscape Architects and Fuss & O’Neill created a vision for an inter-connected series of green “complete streets,” with new, safer bicycle lanes, a pedestrian-friendly “festival street,” and a central hub for new street-level sustainability… Keep reading…
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A closed street can be a living street
On sunny days, Lafayette Square is filled with people. Tourists snap pictures of the White House behind them. Bicyclists and pedestrians enjoy a space where they, not cars, have the right of way. Although two-block stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue was closed for security reasons, it has become similar to what the Dutch call a woonerf (plural woonerven, which translates roughly… Keep reading…
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Weekend links: Trains, buses and cars
Quite a joy ride; Germans back aboard intercity buses; Pick a new fuel economy sticker; Guardians of the Mall; NYC real estate hurt by transit cuts; Slowdown in Sydney; Sustainable transport studies around the world; No conviction, and new Silver Line plans. Keep reading…
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Residents want ped and bike Mount Pleasant Street
The Mount Pleasant ANC wants to transform Mount Pleasant Street into a “pedestrian encounter zone” and bicycle boulevard. Keep reading…