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Who wouldn't swap a road for a boulevard?
| 题名： | Who wouldn't swap a road for a boulevard? |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 作者： | Chris Ames |
| 摘要： | According to London Councils, the capital has 17,000km of carriageways, covering 111 square km, the equivalent size to Jersey and 7% of its surface area. Bear this in mind, as you read Moving Towards Growth, published in September by Create Streets, which argues that it's time to build on what it called Britain's Yoadbelf. More specifically what its author, Create Streets' deputy director David Milner, called 'defunct road space'. Mr Milner says Britain is stuck in a rut of low growth, low productivity and high energy costs and that one way to boost jobs, skills and economic growth is new transport infrastructure. However, he insists, not all transport projects are created equal: 'We must accept that not all fast roads deliver growth.' The keyword here seems to be fast. What Mr Milner seems to want is to replace (fast, British) roads with (slow, cosmopolitan] streets: 'Creating simpler human-scale streets could be a route to enhanced local productivity and prosperity - at a fraction of the price. Specifically, if this thinking were applied to the cities and towns scarred by post-war urban road building, we could create proud boulevards lined with beautiful, sustainably located new homes on space currently given over to counter-productively wide roads. Forget Greenbelt, this is Britain's Roadbelt and it's time to build on it.' |
| 出版年： | 2023 |
| 期刊名称： | Highways |
| 卷： | 92 |
| 期： | 8 |
| 页码： | 22-23 |
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