City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.
what if there are highrise apartments with underground parking lots facing the main street? How would they come and go?
Its pretty common in Europe to allow shared use for access / deliveries using pedestrianised streets where needed.
They’d put a 10kph or 5kph speed limit and pedestrians have priority, delivery vehicles may have restricted hours too - outside of peak shopping hours if the street is mostly retail.
With only resident vehicles and deliveries the traffic volumes are low and it’s fine. Cutting out through traffic and non-resident traffic makes a huge improvement.
Also lots of the people in CBD high rises will choose to walk a lot of their trips - many won’t have a car at all - that’s partly why they live there.
Its pretty common in Europe to allow shared use for access / deliveries using pedestrianised streets where needed.
They’d put a 10kph or 5kph speed limit and pedestrians have priority, delivery vehicles may have restricted hours too - outside of peak shopping hours if the street is mostly retail.
With only resident vehicles and deliveries the traffic volumes are low and it’s fine. Cutting out through traffic and non-resident traffic makes a huge improvement.
Also lots of the people in CBD high rises will choose to walk a lot of their trips - many won’t have a car at all - that’s partly why they live there.