"If you care about streets at all, and most people do - they tend to prefer one street to another, they go out of their way to be on certain streets and to avoid others, they find that travel, shopping, or visiting a friend is simply more pleasant on some streets than on others..." - Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth MacDonald, Yodan Rofé The Boulevard Book
PPS has noticed that many great streets around the world are boulevards. Paris' Champs Elysees is a grand boulevard that combines tremendous amounts of traffic, public transit, and tourism, while maintaining a distinct sense of Parisian urbanity at the pedestrian level. The Prado in Havana, Cuba is a ten-block-long, marble-balustraded, terrazzo-floored, shaded promenade with built in sit-walls within the central boulevard of Old Havana. Avenue Sant Germaine/Montaigne
Our focus is on the pedestrian-oriented downtown street; how an existing arterial can be enhanced to help lure pedestrians back out to the street. Some of the issues that should be considered are
One way to emphasize pedestrian activity over automobile traffic is to design that relates to the sidewalk.
These are streets characterized by a central roadway of at least four lanes for generally fast and non-local traffic, separated from local and pedestrian traffic lanes on either side by tree-lined medians. The medians can be of various widths, sometimes nothing more than planting strips, or they may contain walks, benches, transit strips, bike paths, and even horse trails. The local access ways are narrow and have one through lane and one or two lanes for parking. The sidewalks may be wide and have their own line of trees, but often may be rather narrow.
Multiple roadway boulevards are designed to be multi-functional, and to accommodate different types of traffic - fast, slow, pedestrian, and sometimes bicycle ? all within the same right-of-way. They are balanced streets that provide for the needs of many users.
Although a standard of distance between trees might be decided upon (every 40' or 50'), allowance for existing or recommended circumstances should be responded to such as a cafe, a bench, bus stop, telephone, etc.
The choice must meet the community's preferences for an attitude about the character of the street, as well as accommodate their list of desired attributes. Our experience has dealt primarily with revitalization projects that have been interested in period lighting.
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