Sunday, February 14, 2010

New development on Swanston street

Found an awesome news in awhile.

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/aboutmelbourne/projectsandinitiatives/majorprojects/swanstonstreet/Pages/SwanstonStreet.aspx

Take that Robert Doyle!

Hopefully, Swanston street will be a good example to other shopping streets around Melbourne so that in the future, we will have more car-free streets. The streets that come to my mind are Brunswick, Smith, and Lygon (remember how good it was when the street was closed for cycling criterium?). And those are just the ones near my current house (as of 14 Feb).

The idea is to bring the street back to pedestrians. For too long, we have forgotten that the streets are for the people -- not those who can afford to have steel armoured vehicles. That idea is so embedded in our brains (new generations that grew up with cars) that we forget that street is a public space for all modes of transports slow and fast. We only have to think about the day when horses shared our streets with pedestrian, car, donkey and other.

Bring back livable streets!!

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