tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666218922795754507.post6616943118507379162..comments2023-11-21T23:07:57.616-08:00Comments on Countercyclical: Good and bad examples of shared spaceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666218922795754507.post-51057790487660290072013-02-19T01:41:44.863-08:002013-02-19T01:41:44.863-08:00The bollards certainly pre-date the introduction o...The bollards certainly pre-date the introduction of the one-way scheme and I assume they were originally intended to prevent pavement parking, although as you say the effect is to reduce the available pavement width for pedestrians, who might have been more inclined to stay off the road in the past. Nowadays I wouldn't have thought they were necessary, except that in a peverse sense I think they encourage people to walk in the road where there is more space, and it has become so ingrained now that all the local motorists must have frown accustomed to it.<br /><br />I love the pic of Villers St - people taking over from cars by sheer force of numbers is good to see, although I guess we cant realisticaly expect to see that often without some robust enforcement/calming measures in place.Paul Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07929808238663838155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666218922795754507.post-3824009341390374482013-02-18T19:45:33.319-08:002013-02-18T19:45:33.319-08:00I reckon Villiers Street in London, which runs fro...I reckon Villiers Street in London, which runs from Embankment station up to the Strand, can't be beat for not-shared-space-but-actually-really-good-shared-space. In theory it's a one-way road without restrictions, but the sheer number of people on foot means that any vehicle traffic must roll along carefully. <a href="http://dailyphotostream.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/villiers-street.html" rel="nofollow">There's a photo of it here.</a><br /><br />It's interesting to know that Roupell Street was until recently a rat-run. It's such a lovely, quiet, old-fashioned street now. Hard to believe it's 2013 and the bustle of Waterloo is around the corner! Just a shame those bollards reduce the pavement width so much. Maybe a candidate for actual shared space treatment?<br /><br />Don't get me started on Exhibition Road!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8666218922795754507.post-46862636314952179372013-02-12T07:50:13.734-08:002013-02-12T07:50:13.734-08:00There's "shared space" advocates sug...There's "shared space" advocates suggesting that one of Cambridge's worst junctions, that of Regent Street/Hills Road and Gonville Place/Lensfield Road, be made into a "shared space" junction. Which is insane- possibly worse than the half arsed propsal the council have put forward.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06817806128052425511noreply@blogger.com