Saturday, May 20, 2006

Car Free in Adelaide??

Adelaide's heart should be made car-free on Sundays in a month-long experiment to rejuvenate the city centre, according to City of Adelaide Minister Jane Lomax-Smith.

On the nominated month in a quiet part of the year, the city centre would be blocked off to vehicles, special bicycle assembly areas would be provided, and the city would fall silent to the sound of motor cars. Shops would be open for business as usual.
She proposed the plan yesterday so people could experience what it would be like in a city of only pedestrians and cyclists. Wow dangerously radical thinking. What will the RAA say? What about all those Car Park Operators and those traffic inspectors.

Although Adelaide traffic is nothing compared to some of the cities I have had the luck to visit or live in, noteably Seoul, Manila, Washington DC, Jakarta, San Francisco for example, the scale of the city makes it a good candidate for a greater emphasis on non automobile transporatation.
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