Two recent items of note: over at carbusters.org, they’re sponsoring a design competition for reuse of spaces currently dedicated to autos.
And at BikePortland.org, new contributor Elly Blue is calling for more temporary street closures to help envision how our communities could work with fewer cars.
One response to “Thinking Less about Cars”
I’d actually be really interested in the ideas of closing certain streets in and around the trendy third area to “local only” traffic… i.e. the people who lived on the street.
Place gardens in the center streets with “local traffic only” signs and such, but make em’ nice.
I think it would drastically reduce the “danger” of the streets over here. Now that I’ve lived over here for a while I notice how much more difficult it is to be safe since being the SW Portland area. If you’re walking, biking, or driving it is extremely difficult to gauge and to view all of the vehicles coming and going at cross streets. You can only slow down and edge out into the street to view but so long, eventually one has to bite the bullet and plunge into or across traffic.