> Why more distance? Streets wouldn’t get wider. Rather if you try to dense-up the city, streets will go narrower.
......yes?
You make the paved street narrower, allowing more distance between the lanes and the sidewalk.
And I didn't say anything about changing the density of the overall city. I'm talking about places where people are already walking but they're next to tons of cars.
> If you remove street parking, there won’t be space to fit in anything meaningful without rebuilding stuff around it.
The original complaint was people being within arms length of high speed cars. The meaningful thing you do is make that stop being the case.
Here paved part, besides the major isolated streets, is already quite as narrow as standard buses and lorries allow. Also, where streets were seen as too wide, when rebuilding, sometimes sidewalks got even narrower. The used space was either used for greenery (which is nice), dedicated bike paths (also good) or on-street commerce (which IMO sucks since I prefer wider sidewalks).
Usually getting rid of traffic ideas involve densing up the cities by building more. The idea is that once you remove cars, people will want to live closer to PoIs. And more housing is needed. Hoping that people will just switch to public transit, from what I see, just doesn’t work - business and entertainment moves to car-OK parts of the city. There needs to be cheap housing and strict regulations preventing sprawl too.
And I’m saying that „just“ solving cars at high speed passing by is very complex.
......yes?
You make the paved street narrower, allowing more distance between the lanes and the sidewalk.
And I didn't say anything about changing the density of the overall city. I'm talking about places where people are already walking but they're next to tons of cars.
> If you remove street parking, there won’t be space to fit in anything meaningful without rebuilding stuff around it.
The original complaint was people being within arms length of high speed cars. The meaningful thing you do is make that stop being the case.