pedestrianise all the little laneways off Hindley, Rundle, Gawler Place and in the CBD that run off main streets. Pave them,plants things, encourage businesses that open onto the street, make places for people to sit and talk and have lunch, limit smoking so they dont turn into ashtrays and ban cars entirely, make a pedestrian network across the CBD.
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Comments
This a great idea. It should not just be limited to the laneways off Hindley and Rundle Streets; there are almost 350 back streets in the CBD. Even if only 10% become pedestrian priority, it is still enough to create a network that links the squares, market, shopping, homes and businesses. It would make the city a much more friendly place in which to to walk.
Agreed. Streets like Peel St and Twin St already have proven uses as event centres and would benefit from the removal of cars with no traffic impacts.
If peel street was car free, then I'd love lingering there and pondering upon the art undisturbed. I like the 'plant things' idea, guerilla gardening could pitch the idea as a temporary sample to passers by.
err, Deja Vu!
Did Jan Gehl not recommend to return our streets to pedestrians in 2004 during his visit to Adelaide?? His project for Adelaide is funnily currently still listed on his homepage,
(see: http://www.gehlarchitects.com/#)
This is the advice from one of the most regarded urbanists globally,
And what a great idea??
It wasnt implemented.
Why?
Maybe closing streets is very difficult politically, because shop owners are unable to have the foresight of the benefits of the scheme, and their opinion matters & also car drivers do still have claims to the roads, if am to be astutely democratic, although cars are the demise of adelaide: noisy, aggressive, polluting/anti-ecological, space wasting (think carparks), encouraging of individualism rather than collective mentailities. DOWN WITH THE CAR, really. Why does Australia support wars to secure petrol for activities that are degenerative to our own experience in our very cities (this is the sadistic drive of the market),
So let's continue the proposition to wholly return the roads to pedestrian, bikes and trams (Copenhagen model) & where we cannot feasibly close down roads, lets implement The Complete Street concept (see link below) which consists of an isolated bike corridoor that is protected from cars by a parking lane, which further reduces the crossing distance of roads for pedestrians, regulates car speed & provides opportunities for planting amenities, benefitting all users. A brilliant democratic use of space!!
The linked documentary details and explains the outrageously successful implementation of this concept in NYC. I have recently lived in Vienna, Austria where they use this same model, and to commute as a cyclist or pedestrian was a pleasure. So Adelaide, what are you waiting for??
I say this from the perspective of a long-term commuting cyclist who drives a car once a fortnight. Today the streets are an ugly place for cyclists, but even more pertinently, the streets are simply NOT SAFE. We must implement adequate bike infrastructure in the CBD- installing them in parklands is not enough. Let's not wait for casualties.
"Complete Streets" link:
http://www.streetfilms.org/complete-streets-its-about-more-than-just-bike-lanes/
Great idea, they need to be paved and have really good lighting. This could also work well with the "bike time" idea that closes some east/west and north/south roads for bikes to either enter or clear the city in rush hour with out competing with cars.
This is a great idea, and its been done in many other places successfully, such as Liverpool when it became the European City of Culture. This will help to breathe life into the city, encourage 'underground' creative industries and artists, and could potentially be linked with the fantastic Renew Adelaide/Renew Australia initiative.
Make gawler place a mall and extend the topham mall on the other side of the city to the central market chinatown precict, oh and expand that precict and start new cultural precicts along the lines of chinatown but based around africa, aboriginal, europe and india
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