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NYT Room for Debate

On the off chance you missed, me and some other fuzzy headed Jane Jacobs types, a tenured suburbanite urbanist or two, as well as a few random tar-breathing asphalt heads, discuss, in the paper of record, the idea of bringing some European-style traffic demand management to U.S. shores. The pyrotechnics are to be found here.

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  1. T Ian McLeod Says:
    June 30th, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Thanks for flagging this interesting discussion. Your own contribution was excellent.

    Having just returned from a two-week holiday that took in five countries in Europe (it’s forty years since I first travelled in Europe - goodness me) I’ll offer the following observations.

    1. There are an increasing number of pedestrian zones in historic areas, and they’re very pleasant; and the congestion charge in London appears to have a positive effect.

    2. Contrariwise, Germany and England (at least) are increasingly locating their suburban retail services and their new residential highrises in highway corridors.

    3. A significant number of Europeans appear to view sitting in traffic for hours as part of the price of progress, or even a valid form of recreation. The road around the Bodensee, a large and impressively scenic lake, was an almost unbroken traffic jam; leaving Konstanz to get out of this ring we took one hour to go four kilometres on a national highway, due to a combination of (presumably normal) afternoon volume and lane closures around idle road construction sites.

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