How to improve our city streets?

Choose different ways to get around your city. Walk, bike, skateboard, scooter, take public transit, as many times a week as you can. Focus especially on those short trips–for example, buy a shopping trolley and walk to the grocery store if possible.

BY FOLLOWING THE BELOW GIVEN IDEAS WE CAN IMPROVE OUR CITY STREETS.

Explanation:

The quality of life in many European cities is affected by the

negative impacts of increasing traffic

levels. This chapter looks at ways in

which a dominance of car traffic

affects our lives in urban areas, and

suggests that there is a growing

consensus, from the global to the

local level, that the situation is

unsustainable.

technically challenging and politically

sensitive planning option in urban

areas where road congestion is

already a problem.This chapter

brings together best practice from a

wide range of expertise and

experience in dealing with these

issues, in particular that drawn from

the schemes described in this

document. The objective is to assist

politicians and planners working to

develop more sustainable transport

strategies for Europe’s towns and

cities.

The traditional response to the problem of traffic congestion has

been to increase the road space  available for cars. In this chapter, the

theory of ‘traffic evaporation’ is

explored as a concept which

challenges the logic of this approach.

This theory supports the proposition

that reducing road capacity for cars

in congested city centres can

represent a sustainable, efficient

planning solution. In addition, once

freed from domination by car traffic,

reclaimed urban spaces can become

accessible, vibrant ‘living’ places.

• Kajaani, Finland

• Wolverhampton, England

• Vauxhall Cross, London, England,

• Nuremberg, Germany

• Strasbourg, France

• Gent, Belgium

• Cambridge, England

• Oxford, England

This chapter presents the experiences of a small selection of

European cities where urban

planners, with the political support of

local leaders, have had the vision and

the courage (often in the face of

considerable opposition) to take

away congested road space from

private cars. In each case study, after

an initial settling-in period, the

predicted traffic chaos did not

materialise and some of the traffic

‘evaporated’.