Article written for the heading "Proposals and Projects" site Bike & Basta
your opinion, which ' proposal is the most extreme of them all?
I say? ... I know the comments ... give me extremist ... and who cares! ... I say it.
CLOSE TO THE CENTRE private traffic!
VE say it another way: "You drive in the center no longer turns, neither day nor night, even on Saturday afternoon! The tank in Rome, do away on foot or by bike"
The idea is to allow the transit center only to residents to come and go, with the possibility to park in assigned parking spaces near their home. This will eliminate a lot of cars from the streets and you can make room for running bikes, pedestrians, public transport Electric (The Star) taxis and (perhaps methane) each on their specific locations. Each route will have the lane for motor vehicles and one for bikes and the pavement for pedestrians. In every street will be eliminated at least one row of parking lots providing more space for everyone.
sounds crazy, but you can. Look at the wonderful results obtained from the pedestrian area of \u200b\u200bVia Lagrange. You can walk freely in the middle of the road looking at last the facades of buildings, commercial sales have doubled: there are positive sides to the passer, the resident and the worker.
The whole idea of \u200b\u200bthe pedestrian center (inside the square formed by lungopo, c.so Vittorio, c.so Palestro, c.so Queen and c.so S. Mauritius for example) is what most European cities have made in recent years, promoting tourism, trade, etc ...
From strategic point of view, the center released on the private car will be easy to enhance public transport and you can safely create a bike-sharing service.
In Turin there is a small problem. The politics in recent years, far removed from the examples of Europe, has encouraged the creation of a large number of underground parking located in the heart of downtown.
Today at the dawn of 2010, before the evidence dell'insostenibilità cars in urban centers, they are working frantically to the creation of yet another underground parking lot, the Palazzo Nuovo. Imagine if all these millions of euro were invested in projects of sustainable mobility, smart, that paradise could be our city. And 'no point in coming back from Amsterdam, Berlin and many other European cities ... We are amazed at their excellent public transport always punctual and clean their bike paths, just knowing how to invest the money!
This type of policy has the sole purpose of gathering consents, reinforcing the bad habit of Turin to use the car also for smaller displacements. If today we had more parking outside the station could be immediately put into practice a considerable pedestrian downtown with huge benefits for everyone.
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