my-working-diary: la mia strada

giovedì 5 giugno 2014

la mia strada

giochino interattivo per diventare tutti pianificatori della mobilità
come allenatori della nazionale al bar, tutti si intendono di traffico.
almeno facciamo le prove.

We’ve just made a small change to the default layout when you create a new street by adding in a lane of parking on the side, opposite from the transit shelter bulb-out.
Why did we do this?
On-street parking acts as a protective “barrier of steel” between pedestrians and traffic, to use a term noted walkability expert Jeff Speck used in his book Walkable City.
Walkability leads to other benefits, too. Kaid Benfield, Director of Sustainable Communities at the Natural Resources Defense Council, writes:

We take it for granted, but on-street parking buffers walkers from the flow of traffic, providing them with an additional sense of comfort in a highly urban space. The more comfortable we are walking, the more sustainability and health benefits we can enjoy.

We agree. Many of our streets have this condition, so we’ve updated our default layout accordingly.
And while we’re on the subject: parking doesn’t just buffer pedestrians – it can buffer bikes, too. Several European cities like Amsterdam and Copenhagen commonly have a row of parked cars separating traffic from bicyclists. While rare in the United States, this design is starting to gain traction in New York City, Chicago and a few other North American cities. We haven’t made this the default condition, but maybe someday we’ll have to – in the meantime, it’s pretty easy to try it yourself!

e c'è anche il manuale del buon pianificatore !

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